The mosque is still active as a Muslim place of worship, and also houses a small exhibition centre for Turkish handicraft and historical artifacts documenting Hungary's Ottoman past.

[3] Yakovalı Hasan participated in the successful siege of Oradea (Varat) in 1660, and defended Pécs and Kanizsa against the troops of Miklós Zrínyi in 1664.

The mosque was in use for about half a century before being presumably abandoned from late 1686 when Pécs was captured by Austrian forces, after which it served as a hospital.

Yakovalı Hasan Paşa Mosque has a relatively simple structure, with a square base surmounted by a typical Turkish dome and ogee windows.

There was once a foyer on the northwest side of the mosque, part of a larger complex which included a tekke (a sort of monastery for sufi dervishes), an imaret (soup kitchen for the needy), and a madrassa (Islamic school).

A statue of the Ottoman chronicler İbrahim Peçevi (Ibrahim of Pécs), by Turkish sculptor Metin Yurdanur, was unveiled before the mosque in 2016.