This place of worship was completed in the early-19th century and is one of the city’s top landmarks.
At the fall of communism it was the site of one of the most remarkable events in Tirana’s recent history, when on the 10th of January 1991 10,000 people gathered to practise their religion, against the decree of the authorities who had banned Islam for almost half a century.
In the end there was no police interference and the event marked a turning for religious freedom in Albania.
