The mosque was built in the city's inner castle (Its Kale) immediately after the conquest by the Ottomans in 1430, near the ruins of an early 13th-century Byzantine church dedicated to the Archangels Michael and Gabriel.

[1] Originally it was a wooden structure, which was replaced in 1611 by a stone building.

It was extensively remodelled in 1795 by Ali Pashë Tepelena , who made it the main mosque of his palace.

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