Enver Hoxhas Krieg gegen die Religion
Enver Hoxha's Fight against Religion

Summary/Abstract: In the post-war Albanian campaign against religion, 1967 was the decisive year. In the midst of the Cultural Revolution of the country, which ran parallel to that in China, the First Party Secretary, Enver Hoxha (Hodja), announced in a speech to the Central Committee of the Party on February 6, 1967, a new policy aimed at the complete destruction of the religious organizations in his country. The onslaught of the country's young revolutionaries against organized religion resulted in the closure, destruction or conversion of 2169 churches, mosques, monasteries and other religious institutions throughout Albania within a few months. In November 1967, a special decree annulled all previous provisions on church-state relations, depriving all religious communities of the constitutional basis, that is, in Albania above all the Mohammedans, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Bektashi (a branch of the Shiites, whose world headquarters moved in the 1920s from Ankara to Tirana) and the Roman Catholic Church - in size in this order

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