The mosque can be entered via four horseshoe arch doorways. The central motif is a large horseshoe arch. The madrasa is entered through an ornate stone portal with a horseshoe arch doorway. In Moorish architecture, the curvature of the horseshoe arch is much more accentuated. A single, large door set into a Horseshoe arch leads into the suite of buildings. Inside, a horseshoe arch frames the heichal and polychrome columns support the galleries. It belonged to the ancient mosque and retains its horseshoe arch shape from that time. The exterior had a large horseshoe arch, made with voussoirs of stone from Sierra Elvira. The handsome horseshoe arch of the niche for the "aron kodesh" is especially graceful. The Tala'a Kebira entrance has a horseshoe arch doorway surrounded by stucco decoration. The horseshoe arch has ablaq masonry, harkening to Mamluk architecture in Egypt. Horseshoe arch rests on the pillars which divide the naves.