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wayside chapel originally built at about 1658 is known popularly
as ‘ta’ Derimblat’.
This is the name of the area between the Chapel of the Immaculate
Conception and Cumbo Tower. The name, or one of its variants (like ‘Andar
il-Blat’ or ‘Durumblat’) means a rocky plain,
such as this site must have looked like in far off days. It is
of note that the stones that were used to build the Mosta Rotunda
were cut from this area. Another eventful note about this area concerns the Great Siege
of Malta of 1565. It is in the vicinity of this part of Mosta
that the Turkish invaders set up their standards before they
retreated to their sea craft, defeated and demoralised after
three months of fighting against the Knights of the Order of
St. John and the Maltese inhabitants.
Yet
another note-worthy incident took place during the Second
World War.
As Tal-Kuncizzjoni is situated in the vicinity of
Ta’ Qali, which was at the time a military airfield,
the authorities deemed it right to pull the chapel down to
use its
stones in the building of protective constructions for the
aircraft in this base. Yet, as the War ended the Government
built this
chapel once more under the direction of the architect Alfred
Zammit. On the 8th of December 1955 its titular feast was celebrated
for the first time. The main painting is that which had existed
in the previous chapel and is the work of the artist Filippo
Dingli (active first half of the 17th century), brother of
Tommaso Dingli, architect of the first parish church of Mosta
(demolished
when the Rotunda was completed).

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