The mosque is located in the southern part of the medieval city, just in front of Bab Diwan, the biggest and oldest entrance of the medina.

[1] According to the local popular stories, El Ajouzine mosque is basically the result of the joining of two old houses belonging to two old women of the city.

[2] Like many monuments of the medina of Sfax, the mosque got hugely damaged because of the bombing attacks during the Second World War.

Restoration work to safeguard the monument was carried out by the municipality of Sfax in 1963.

And this structure supports the popular story of merging two adjacent houses with patio.