The Indo-Arabic style of architecture and the ornamental stone carvings make the mosque a special attraction for tourists.

[2] The mosque is composed of eleven entrances, two buttresses, four corner towers and a spacious courtyard which is almost seventy meters in diameter.

The building is faced in plain stone and the doors would originally have been framed by mosaics of glazed colored tiles in floral patterns.

The mosque was known as Sona Masjid due to its earlier gilded wall surface and crowns of the turrets.

Traces remain on a large Takht, the mosque is stoned faced, but unlike the earlier stoned faced Choto Sona mosque, the surface is not carved to imitate brickwork, the only ornamentation is a string coursing running across the structure at half its height, majestic and somber, the ornamentation on the aro Shona Masjid stands in contrast to the ornamentally carved brick Jami mosque at Begha, built only three years earlier by the same Sultan.