Kamfanin dillancin labaran iqna ya habarta cewa, ya nakalto daga shafin sadarwa na yanar gizo na Al-ahram na kasar Masar cewa, masallacin Muhammad Ali na daya daga cikin mashahuran masallatai masu kyau a tarihin birnin Alkahira, wanda kuma aka fi sani da masallacin marmara ko kuma masallacin Alabaster saboda amfani da wani masallatai na musamman a fuskarsa.
A cikin 1830, Muhammad Ali Pasha, (wanda ya kafa kuma ya kafa New Egypt, gwamnan Ottoman na Masar daga 1805 zuwa 1849) ya ba da umarnin gina ginin Ottoman Yusuf Bushnaq.
An fara aikin ginin nan da nan, masu gine-gine da masu fasaha waɗanda suka gina wannan ginin gabaɗaya Masarawa ne ko kuma daga Istanbul.
An shafe fiye da shekaru ashirin ana gina masallacin.
Masallacin Muhammad Ali Pasha yana da siffofi na musamman na gine-gine da suka bambanta shi da sauran masallatan Masar. Minnare biyu na wannan masallaci mai tsayin mita 84 su ne mafi tsayi a cikin masallatan tarihi. Wannan masallacin yana da fitulun fitulu guda 365 daidai da adadin kwanakin shekara, kuma fitilun wannan masallacin guda hudu masu ban sha'awa babu kamarsu a Masar.