The Shuyukh Mosque is called the Great Mosque, and it was called the Shuyukh Mosque in honor and appreciation. The Book of Mosques of Qatar, Their History and Architecture by Dr. Mahmoud Ramadan mentions that the Shuyukh Mosque belongs to the mosques of Qatar in the second half of the twentieth century AD. This century witnessed the emergence of many models of planning Mosques in Qatar amounted to about seven architectural styles, the most prominent of which was the style on which the Sheikh Mosque was built, influenced in its planning by the great Ottoman mosques such as the Sinan Pasha Mosque in Istanbul and the Muhammad Ali Mosque in Salah al-Din Castle in Cairo.