The Madhe Mosque — the Great Mosque — stands in the heart of Ferizaj near the main bazaar streets. The building dates from the late Ottoman period when Ferizaj was founded as a railway town, and it serves the city's Muslim Albanian majority. It is an active place of worship rather than a tourist sight, but visitors are generally welcome outside prayer times.
The mosque and the nearby Orthodox church of St Uroš sit within a few hundred metres of each other in the town centre — an unusual proximity that reflects the mixed population Ferizaj had before the 1990s and the arrangements that have emerged since. The area around the mosque on market days is the liveliest part of the town, with food stalls, vegetable sellers, and the general commerce of a busy Kosovar market.