 In 1923, the Albanian Muslim congress convened at Tirana and decided to break with the Caliphate establishing a new form of prayer (standing, instead of the traditional salah ritual), banishing polygamy, and doing away with the mandatory use of veil (hijab) by women in public, which had been forced on the urban population by the Ottomans during the occupation.In 1929 the Albanian Orthodox Church was declared autocephalous (self-headed).A year later, in 1930, the first official religious census was carried out.