SAINT MOTHER TERESA'S CATHEDRAL
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This Roman Catholic cathedral (Katedralja Nënë Tereza, Katedrala Majke Tereze) is the largest in the Balkans and its 72 m high bell tower is open to visitors with a 50 m high viewing platform. It is also the only church in the world dedicated to Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997). Capable of accommodating 1,000 faithful, that is, almost the entire Catholic community of Pristina (1,200 people), it was consecrated on September 5, 2017, twenty years after the death of the Albanian-Indian nun and one year after her canonization. The building impresses by its dimensions: 77.40 m long, 42.30 m wide at the transept and 32.50 m high under the ceiling. But the style remains quite simple. This was the intention of the Italian architect Livio Sterlicchio, who wanted to create a "neo-romantic" cathedral inspired by the medieval churches of the pre-Islamic period in Kosovo. This speech, Mother Teresa's anti-Muslim stance and the prominent place reserved for the building in the city centre have annoyed some Sunnis (85% of the capital's population). As a symbol, it was President Ibrahim Rugova who laid the foundation stone for the building in 2005, shortly before his conversion to Catholicism in the last days of his life in 2006. Together with the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Prizren, the Cathedral of Pristina is the seat of the Catholic Diocese of Prizren-Pristina, which was founded in 2018.
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