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Chapels: Tal-Kuncizzjoni

This 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).

Tal-Kuncizzjoni


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