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1 Halveti Tekke Teqeja e Helvetive: Berat: 1782 Ahmet Kurt Pasha: 2 Dollma Tekke Teqeja e Dollmës: Krujë: 1789 Dollma Family 3 Frashër Tekke Teqeja e Frashërit: Përmet: 1815 Nasibi Tahir Babai: 4 Martanesh Tekke [2] Teqeja e Martaneshit: Bulqizë: 1779 Adem Aga Toptani 5 Backë Tekke Teqeja e Backës: Skrapar: 1870 Builders were from ...
The Port of Shëngjin provides the area with a strong industrial foundation. Shëngjin has the third largest port in Albania and the Harbor's access point is located on the northwest part of the city. The port is protected by lengthy rock walls that extend into the sea. Shëngjin has approximately 3 km (2 miles) of beach front.
Meshari is written in the Gheg Albanian dialect and uses Latin alphabet, one letter from Serbian Cyrillic, [1] with some modified letters. The book has a rich vocabulary and its orthography and grammatical forms seem to be well established, which is indicative of an earlier tradition in the writing of the Albanian language .
[1] November 1958, Alvar Aalto was personally commissioned to design the church by then-pastor Erich Bammel; Aalto began designing the building the same year. [1] The design was completed and construction started in 1961. The church opened the following year. [2]
The Fortress of Krujë (Albanian: Kalaja e Krujës) is a fortress in the city of Krujë, Albania and the center of Skanderbeg's rebellion against the Ottoman Empire.Inside the fortress is the Teqe of Dollme of the Bektashi (an Islamic Sufi sect), the National Skanderbeg Museum, the remains of the Fatih Sultan Mehmed mosque and its minaret, an ethnographic museum and a Turkish bath.
It became a Cultural Monument of Albania in 1948. [1] The first temple is the oldest large Orthodox basilica from the times of Tsar Samuil, rebuilt as present church by the Thopia family in 1381. [2] [3] [4] Karl Thopia, the Prince of Albania, died in 1388 and was buried in Saint John Vladimir's Church. [5] [6]
[1] [2] [3] These early Albanian dioceses in America were led by Fan S. Noli, and in 1908 a translation of the liturgy into Albanian was made. After political dislocations following the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, all ties with the Russian Orthodox church were severed, and the Albanian churches under Noli became independent. [ 4 ]
The diocese of Scutari (Shkodrë) was established circa 305. The first known bishop was Bassus (387). The bishops of Scutari were at first subject to the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Thessalonica (Thessaloniki, Greece), Primatial see of all Illyricum, but when Byzantine emperor Justinian I transferred the primacy, they became suffragans of the Archdiocese of Justiniana Prima.