The centre provides weekend religious instruction in Arabic, Albanian, and English along with other educational and service programs. The Albanian Islamic Centre is open to Muslims from all ethnic backgrounds, but immigrants from Europe and their descendants form its core membership and predominate on its board. The mosque is unusual for its location in Detroit’s eastern suburbs.

The centre boasts a distinctive Balkan-style dome and minaret. With a prayer area, offices, large social hall, classrooms, and kitchen, the mosque serves an old Albanian American community (already well established in the 1940s) and new Muslim immigrants from Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, and other Balkan countries.

The mosque  was designed by the American architect Frank Beymer and  makes a clear and unambiguous statement of its national character in its Ottoman exterior, represented by its sleek arches, dome and colour scheme.

Although all Muslims are welcome there, its façade proclaims the identity of its original founders, the Albanian Muslim immigrants of Michigan.

The building is a long, low rectangle faced in brick, with a copper-coloured dome over the entrance and the minaret to its left. The façade was not completed until 1975, and the minaret was also added at that time. Inside, there is a relatively small prayer hall, a large multipurpose social hall, a kitchen, classrooms, and office space. It is an example of what Omar Khalidi called “imported” mosque design, embodying a traditional design imported from the Islamic world.