Tabakeve Mosque
Watercolour and CP
©2014 Charlene Brown
In Tirana, the capital of Albania, the Tabakeve
mosque and lovely Islamic Tabakeve bridge are now situated amidst a
deteriorating apartment complex, begun in 1959 by Russian engineers and
completed by the Chinese government after the Soviet Union cut off aid to
Albania. Multi-coloured panels were pretty popular everywhere at that time, but
most didn’t age this badly.
After a walking tour of Tirana, we continued on to
spend the night in Sckoder, where huge Catholic and Orthodox churches were also
in evidence, but were reminded by our guide that Albania
is the one country in Europe where Muslims
form the largest faith group.
