[5] After World War II it was used as a Red Cross center and was heavily damaged because of improper conduct.

The mosque played a central role during the boycott of the Catholic Albanian shops that started in 1905.

During this time, the Muslim population didn't engage in any economic activity with Catholic businesses.

The cause of this boycott was the alleged finding of a pigs head in the mosque right before the morning prayer.

[citation needed] It has been later speculated proven that this was a provocation which had been organized by the Serbian rector of the Bogoslovija Orthodox Church School, in order to divide the Albanians who at that time were fighting for the independence from the Ottoman Empire.