He now drives her across the city so she can attend an Albanian school.

One of his most important photos is the one that documented the first Albanian school, opened in 1887 (the picture dates 1899).

Albanian schools were closed and publications in the Latin alphabet were declared illegal.

The first Albanian school in Gjirokastër was opened in 1886.

A number of textbooks soon were written in the new alphabet, and Albanian elementary schools opened in various parts of the country.

He also wrote the first scholarly history book for Albanian schools, but died before the declaration of independence.

A plan on the creation of textbooks and spread of Albanian schools was drafted.

The hundreds of Albanian schools are mostly set up in houses dotted across the province.

"It is because I went to an Albanian school and now the Albanian university," she said.

The church building served as the first Albanian school of Elbasan in modern times, which opened in 1908.