It is one of the oldest mosques in the city and was constructed by Casa Verona, a dubash of the British East India Company.
Casa Verona, or Kasi Viranna, was a Hindu merchant from Madras who traded with the Sultanate of Golconda.
He was so close to the Sultans of Golconda that they even gave him a Muslim name, Hasan Khan.
The mosque was built in the land which belonged to him a little before his death in 1680.
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