The mosque was built as a first religious object during the time of Sultan Murat II (1442 - 1451), the father of Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror and just for that it was called "Hynkar" which means ruler's, Sultan's, Tsar's mosque. Its construction was a symbolic exchange of the political government in Skopje and that is why it was located on the Virgin Hill, which was a significant Christian center in Skopje with the monastery St. Gjorgji Gorga. During the centuries it was damaged several times (1963) and burnt down (1537, 1689).

 

It belonged to the buildings from the Boer architectural style. The base of the building is three-nave shape basilica with two lines of pillars connected to the ceilings by arches. The main constructor is the master Husein from Debar.  The front door of the mosque is done in shallow carving, and on the lintel two inscription boards are applied which give essential data for the construction. The interior has many architectural elements done in wood (pulpit, ceilings, gallery), decorated with painted arabesques. The Clock Tower, two turbehs (The Sultan Bejan Turbe and the family cemetery of Ali Pasha of Dagestan) and Muslim secondary religious school (medresa) whose remnants are kept nowadays belong to the complex of the mosque.

 

It's situated on the dominant location in the complex of Sultan Murat's mosque and it's mentioned as first building from that type in the Rumelian part of the Empire. It is a rare cultural monument with special architectural and utilitarian use. The Skopje's hexagonal tower was built between 1566 and 1573, half with sandstone and half with bricks, and suffered damage during both the 1669 fire and the 1963 earthquake. It had a clock mechanism from Szeged in Hungary, brought here as booty when the Turks went west

 

The building is consisted of three parts: square base built from stone, middle part which shows eight side tree trunk (to certain height built from stone and after that from bricks ) and the upper part with openings placed in two lines and dome fenced with metal fence. At the end of the second part of the Clock tower the openings are placed where the faces of the clock that face the four quarters of the world. During the 1963 earthquake the Clock tower was badly damaged, but after the undertaken restorations the tower has got its original appearance.