Historische site
Et'hem Bey Mosque
The small mosque on Skanderbeg Square whose frescoes of trees and waterfalls are unusual in Islamic art.
In gewone taal
Albania has Muslims, Bektashis, Orthodox Christians and Catholics, and they have lived side by side for a long time. In 1967 the communist government banned religion completely and closed every mosque and church, the only country ever to do so. Worship became legal again in 1990.
Eenvoudige uitleg
Albania has Muslims, Bektashis, Orthodox Christians and Catholics, and they have lived side by side for a long time. In 1967 the communist government banned religion completely and closed every mosque and church, the only country ever to do so. Worship became legal again in 1990.
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Historische periode
Communist Albania
Forty-six years under Enver Hoxha and his successor: total collectivisation, the banning of religion, successive…
Onderwerp
The Albanian Orthodox Church
An autocephalous church since 1937, rebuilt almost from nothing after 1991.
Onderwerp
Albanian Culture
A culture shaped by mountain isolation, five centuries of Ottoman rule, and fifty years of enforced separation.
Persoon
Mother Teresa
Born in Skopje to an Albanian family from Prizren and Shkodër; canonised in 2016 and now a national symbol.
Plaats
Laç
An industrial town and the site of the Saint Anthony pilgrimage church at Shëngjin i Vogël.
Onderwerp
The Bektashi Order
A Sufi order whose world headquarters has been in Tirana since 1925, with a major shrine on Mount Tomorr.
Toelichting
Religion in Albania, Explained
Four communities, centuries of coexistence, twenty-three years of total prohibition, and a census question nobody…
Bronnen
- Wikipedia —
Religion in Albania — English Wikipedia
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Photographs
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