The mosque is built on a brick platform and looks like a citadel. It has solid thick walls and a slim column rising from a corner. The column looks more like a turret than a minaret. The mosque was never finished and the part of its hall is open to sky.
Cannons Facing the walls, outside the mosque, there is a huge bell-metal cannon called Nilam which has bore, and is long and round at the mouth. This cannon was brought from
Diu, where it was left by the
Ottoman admiral Suleyman Pasha following their defeat in
siege of Diu (1538) while assisting
Gujarat Sultanate against their struggle with
Portuguese. There is an Arabic inscription at the muzzle, which may be translated: "The order to make this cannon, to be used in the service of the Almighty, was given by the Sultan of Arabia and Persia, Sultan Sulaiman, son of Salim Khan. May his triumph be glorified, to punish the enemies of the State and of the Faith, in the capital of Egypt, 1531." At the breech is inscribed: "The work of Muhamman, the son of Hamzah." Another large cannon called Kadanal, also from Diu, in the southern portion of the fort, is long, and has a muzzle in diameter. ==Gallery==