 The Duisi mosque was forcefully closed, along with other religious structures after the Bolshevik revolution, and not reopened until 1960.Sanikidze notes that many Kists, regardless of their designation, have a mix of Muslim, Christian and indigenous religious practices.The position of Islam strengthened among the Kists in the Soviet period, in part because "wandering"
mullahs continued to proselytize and managed to persuade many to convert to Islam, a process that continued into the 1970s.