[5] Its was built by Ottoman conqueror Gazi Ahmed Evrenos near the eastern walls of the Byzantine Koumoutzedes Castle.

[8] At the time of Gazi Evrenos, it was located on the eastern walls of the Byzantine castle / small outpost on the outskirts of Mosynopolis on the road axis from Constantinople to the west.

In the nineteenth century during the occupation of the city by the Bulgarians, the eastern part of Imaret was converted into a church; an inscription in Cyrillic alphabet is preserved on the door above the arch to this day.

Today it functions as a museum with ecclesiastical exhibits (which date from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries) such as icons, sacred vessels, vestments, manuscripts from churches in the area but also donations from refugees from Asia Minor who settled in the Rhodope region following the exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey in 1923.

The Association of University Graduates of the Western Thrace Minority published a report on the matter to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) saying that this move was aimed at "changing the identity of the Ottoman monument, and with the help of the European Union at that.