The Mosque of Sultan Hasan was built between 757–764 AH / 1356–1363 AD, during the Bahri Mamluk period.

In 1837, Pascale Coste published six plates of the interior of the mosque (pls. XXI–XXVI). Several preparatory drawings are conserved in the Bibliothèque l’Alcazar in Marseille (Fonds Pascale Coste, MS1309). In 1893, the Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l’Art Arabe described the ruinous state of the mosque and stated that the window grilles were broken or entirely lost. The restoration that followed in 1906 included the windows. The mausoleum windows were newly made on the model of the old ones, from which some vestiges remained (Franz, Grand, & Herz, 1906, pp. 107, 111; Barois, Bahgat, Boinet, Casanova, & Herz, 1906, p. 47). The windows installed today are of the same design as those in Coste’s plates, but with different colours.

Barois, J., Bahgat, A. Boinet, A., Casanova, P., & Herz, M. (1906). 6° Mosquée du sultan Hassan. In Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l'Art Arabe (Fascicule 22, exercice 1905, pp. 46-47). https://doi.org/10.3406/ccmaa.1906.11008

Coste, P.-X. (1837). Architecture arabe ou Monuments du Kaire, mesurés et dessinés, de 1818 à 1826. Paris: Typographie de Firmin Didot Frères et Compagnie, Imprimeurs de l'Institut de France.

Franz, J., Grand, P., & Herz, M. (1906). Sur la mosquée du sultan Hassan. In Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l'Art Arabe (Fascicule 10, exercice 1893, pp. 104–111). https://doi.org/10.3406/ccmaa.1906.6000