The Old Mosque (Xhamija e Vjetër), stood on the main street of the city, about 70m to the east of the current one.

[1] Also named after its founder Kapllan Pasha, the Kubelie mosque had been described as a "grand, beautiful building, with a dome and a peristyle.

Marble facades rise under the cypress trees with their Byzantine columns and their Arabian arches.

"[2] After being destroyed by the Communists in the 1970s, the new mosque has a very simple style and is made of concrete and white color while the original mosque was an Ottoman stone building with beautifully coloured decorations on the inside.

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