The Photo Collection of Edith Durham

Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo, 1903 - 1913

ED027_RAI 400.13325 Montenegro. Ulqin/Ulcinj. The Sailors’ Mosque in the harbour of Ulqin/Ulcinj, now in Montenegro. It was built in the 14th century and demolished by Serbian forces in 1931. The mosque was rebuilt in 2012 on the very same site, now amidst the tourists and traffic (Photo: Edith Durham, January 1907). “The bay, with the old town on the promontory and its Venetian walls, is very beautiful. The town stretches down the valley and round the bay, and several mosque minarets tell of the Turk. The Mohammedan women here wear an odd and hideous great hooded cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff bound with red. In this they slink about like bogies, and the Moslems, both men and women, have a furtive and rather ashamed appearance, very different from their swagger in Skodra. In the old town, pieces of carving built into walls and well-hewn stones are all that is left of the Venetian occupation.” (Edith Durham, Through the Lands of the Serb, 1904).