Mother Teresa Museum in Shkodra

SHKODRA, Oct 20 – Mother Teresa’s former house in the northern city of Shkodra has been turned into a museum and has on display many objects she had used during her stay there in 1932-33.
The museum was opened on the fifth anniversary of her beatification.
The house has been reconstructed by the World Peace Union and it shows 40 pictures, documents and other personal objects use by Mother Teresa.
The Roman Catholic nun is an ethnic Albanian who has long been revered in this mostly Muslim country.
Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2003, putting her on the road to possible sainthood for her life’s work building shelters, orphanages and clinics around the world to care for the downtrodden.
Born Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in neighboring Macedonia to an ethnic Albanian family, she went to Calcutta, India, in 1929 and dedicated herself to the service of the poor and infirm.
She died on Sept. 5, 1997 at age 87.
She first visited Albania in 1989, when the communists were still in power. Albanians were barred from practicing religion from 1947 until 1990, when communism ended.
Albania, predominantly Muslim with large Orthodox Christian and Roman Catholic minorities, is officially a secular nation, and relations between religious communities are generally good.