The Agha Bozorg Mosque is a mosque and madrasa honoring Mulla-Mahdi Naraqi II, known as Āghā Bozorg. The article credits the master mi'mar Ustad Haj Sa'ban-ali as builder and founder. An inscription dates the building to 1248 AH (1832 or 1833 CE), but other evidence points to construction between 1844 and 1850. The style is Qajar, and the article notes the design's symmetry.
The long complex runs northwest to southeast around a sunken courtyard on two levels. The entrance is an arched, domed iwan-portal leading to a domed vestibule, and the southeast side has a domed pavilion with an octagonal central chamber and a hypostyle prayer hall with twenty freestanding pillars. Two minarets rise from the main iwan, and wind catchers flank the entrance above a vaulted basement.
Student dormitories surround the courtyard. The article calls it a major tourist attraction beside the 15th-century Khaje Taj od-Din Mausoleum.
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