It is the only such Peruvian place of worship that is an example of Islamic architecture in the country, though it is not the only such building.

It is the largest place of worship for Muslims in the entirety of the Department of Tacna.

[1] It was built by Pakistanis who had arrived to Peru as merchants in the 1990s and were importing used cars from Japan and the United States with permission from the erstwhile Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori.

Imam Mohammad Usman was head of the Bab al-Islam Mosque in 2015.

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