On 19 July 2020, at approximately 6:45 am,[1] part of the mosque's central dome collapsed due to heavy rainfall.

The mosque was built in the early decades of the 19th century in 1823 by a nautch dancer called Mubarak Begum who also served as a tawaif in the Mughal court.

Mubarak Begum was born into a poor Brahmin family initially pursued her career as a dancing girl in Pune.

"For the first time, a nautch girl, not royalty, had commissioned a mosque and so Randi ki Masjid became the informal name.

"[6] After the death of Mubarak Begum in 1878, control of the mosque was assumed by the British government.