In 1940, the building was obtained by the City of Richmond, which changed over quite a bit of its inside for civil utilize. The Richmond Police Department involved the theater's storm cellar, where they opened up office space, classrooms, an exercise room, and a shooting range for the police institute. An underground swimming pool was additionally kept up, at first to train purposes, until the point that it was filled in with concrete amid the 2014 redesign.
The name of the auditorium was changed in 1995 from "The Mosque" to "Historic point Theater" following a time of rebuilding. After a million redesign blessing from the organization, the auditorium was formally named the Altria Theater in February 2014. It every year plays host to enormous name melodic and dramatic entertainers