Residence 1
📍Ul. Makedonska Brigada 2, 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia
1910 – 1928“I was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Skopje, in a house where my mother fed anyone who came to the door — no questions asked. I left for Calcutta at eighteen and never went back. The streets there became my home instead. The poverty I encountered was not abstract. It had a face, a name, a smell. I held people as they died because I believed no one should die feeling unloved and unwanted. People called me a saint. I was just someone who decided to stay.”
👍 LovedMorning prayers in the half-dark; the smell of bread; the moment someone stops feeling invisible.
👎 DislikedThe bureaucracy that slowed mercy; the poverty I could not reach fast enough.
🗺️ Approximate location today
📍 Street view today
Sources: Kolodiejchuk, B. Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (2007), Doubleday; Spink, K. Mother Teresa (1997), HarperCollins
Residence 2
📍Missionaries of Charity, 54A Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Road, Kolkata, India
1948 – 1997“I was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Skopje, in a house where my mother fed anyone who came to the door — no questions asked. I left for Calcutta at eighteen and never went back. The streets there became my home instead. The poverty I encountered was not abstract. It had a face, a name, a smell. I held people as they died because I believed no one should die feeling unloved and unwanted. People called me a saint. I was just someone who decided to stay.”
👍 LovedMorning prayers in the half-dark; the smell of bread; the moment someone stops feeling invisible.
👎 DislikedThe bureaucracy that slowed mercy; the poverty I could not reach fast enough.
🗺️ Approximate location today
📍 Street view today
Sources: Kolodiejchuk, B. Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (2007), Doubleday; Spink, K. Mother Teresa: A Complete Authorized Biography (1997), HarperCollins; Missionary of Charity archives, Kolkata
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