The Abu Darwish Mosque on Jabal al-Ashrafieh is one of the most architecturally unusual mosques in Jordan, built in 1961 in alternating black and white stone in a geometric pattern that gives it a striking checkerboard appearance. The design uses traditional Levantine stonework techniques in an almost art-deco composition — angular, bold, and quite unlike the Ottoman or modern Saudi styles that predominate elsewhere in Amman.
The mosque sits at the top of Ashrafieh hill and can be seen from much of the downtown area. The neighbourhood below it, Jabal al-Ashrafieh, is one of the less-visited and more working-class of Amman's central hills, and worth a walk for its street life and old stone houses. The mosque itself is not open to tourists during prayer times, but the exterior — particularly at golden hour — is worth the climb.