The mosque includes extensive coloured glass in its facade, and displays other traditional elements such as the Panj Kāse ("five concaved") design.

It had been commissioned by Mirza Hasan Ali Nasir ol-Molk, one of the lords and aristocrats of Shiraz and the son of Ali Akbar Qavam ol-Molk the kalantar of Shiraz.

[2] Although stained glass is mostly popular in churches nowadays, the earliest discovered was in Syria from the 7th century.

[dubious – discuss] There is evidence of techniques and recipes for obtaining stained glass by the Persian chemist Jabir ibn Hayyan in his book Kitab al-Durra al-maknuna (The Book of the Hidden Pearl) published in the eighth century CE.

Orsi differs from stained glass used in many churches and Ottoman mosques which serve as illuminated images rather than a source of light.