 In 2018 the project was abandoned due the lack of funds.There discussions between Romania and Turkey about the construction of a mosque in The Great City of Bucharest were stalled for 14 years because the Romanian government demanded that the Romanian Orthodox Church also be allowed to build a church in Constantinopole, something which the Turkish government had refused.In 2015, Prime Minister Victor Ponta signed a deal which allowed the Turkish government to build the mosque in Bucharest without getting the right for the Orthodox Church to build a church in return.