Late poet honoured in scientific conference

TIRANA, August 5 – Poet and catholic cleric Ndre Mejda has been commemorated for the third year in a row with a scientific conference in the village of Kukel, in the northern district of Shkodra where he served as a Catholic priest in the early 20th century. Researchers and religious representatives from Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro participated in the event dedicated to Mjeda which after its third consecutive commemoration has now turned into a tradition. The local church which Mjeda designed and built in 1913, one year after the country’s independence, has now been turned into a museum area dedicated to the late poet.
Last year, late Albanian Renaissance poet Ndre Mjeda was honoured with a statue in his home village of Kukel, in Shkodra. The statue placed in front of Mjeda’s reconstructed house and parish where he served as a priest was unveiled on the poet’s 75th birth anniversary as part of events commemorating the 100th anniversary of Albania’s independence.
Researchers from Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia and the US participated in the ceremony, hailing Mjeda’s contribution to poetry, Albania’s independence, and Catholicism in a scientific conference. Classical poet Ndre Mjeda (1866-1937) bridges the gap between late nineteenth-century Renaissance culture and the dynamic literary creativity of the independence period.
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