The Mother Teresa Memorial House (, ) is a museum dedicated to the Catholic saint and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mother Teresa. It is located in her hometown Skopje, in North Macedonia, where she lived from 1910 to 1928. The memorial house was built on the Macedonia Street in the Centar municipality, on the location of the former Sacred Heart of Jesus Roman Catholic Church, where Mother Teresa was baptized. It lies just east of the Ristiḱ Palace and the Macedonia Square. Opened in January 2009, the memorial house was visited by around 12,000 people in its first three weeks.
On her 100th birthday anniversary, the Memorial House of Mother Teresa was included in Skopje 2014. Construction of the building began in May 2008. It was built on the location of the former Sacred Heart Catholic Church (the place where Mother Teresa was baptized), which was destroyed in the 1963 Skopje earthquake. The government funded the project with . In an international competition for the project, the Macedonian Ministry of Culture declared a Portuguese architect as the winner. However, the government overturned this decision, choosing a design previously produced by a local architect team. The architect of the project was Vangel Boà ¾inovski. The memorial house was opened on 30 January 2009. Catholic bishop Kiro Stojanov consecrated the memorial house.
Within the first three weeks after its opening, the museum was visited by around 12,000 people. Inside the museum, part of her relics are preserved, which were transferred to Skopje, with the help of the Catholic Church. In 2013, the Memorial House of Mother Teresa was promoted to a cultural heritage object.
Architect Maren Harnack said that the building "does not symbolize Mother Teresa's life and her renunciation of material goods", while architect Erich Raith described the structure as "designed very perfunctorily, with too many stories to tell, but without any essential message to give". Raith said that "if it werenâÂÂt for the Christian cross, it could be a disco or casino".
Architecture professor Divna PenciÃÂ has called the building "a tactless and tasteless homage to Mother Teresa" and "a depressing example of political meddling":
An architect involved in the making of the museum said: According to the museum, "the most positive reviews of the eclectic style come from foreign architects, tourists, and younger visitors". In 2020, architect Miroslav GrÃÂev called for the demolishment of the museum, along with Porta Macedonia.