It is the only brick mosque in Lithuania. It stands on the corner of Totorių and Trakų streets, in the north-western part of the former Carmelite cemetery. Its longitudinal axis runs south–north, and the main façade faces Totorių Street. Tibet Square lies 200 m to the north. Around 1860 a wooden mosque and two wooden houses were built near what is now Totorių Street. One housed an almshouse and the elder of the Tatar community lived in the other. In 1930, on the initiative of the Kaunas Tatar Society, a new brick mosque was built. The mosque's plan consists of a square prayer hall and a rectangular vestibule, to which a tower – the minaret – is attached. Spires with crescents rise above the minaret and the dome. During the Second World War the mosque ceased to function. In Soviet times it housed Valentin Dikul's circus, and later a library and a storeroom of the M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum. In 1972–1973 it was renovated to a design by the architect Z. Dargis. An open reinforced-concrete gallery was added on the south side. There were plans to set up a Museum of Oriental Art in the mosque, but when the national revival began the plan was abandoned. In 1989 the mosque was returned to the faithful, and the first services were held in 1991. A major renovation was carried out in 2007–2008. On 23 December 1996 Kaunas Mosque was entered in the Register of Cultural Heritage of the Republic of Lithuania.