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Shoqata Social-Kulturore Shqiptaro-Amerikane Iliria

About Shoqata Social-Kulturore Shqiptaro-Amerikane Iliria

Area served:
St. Louis and surrounding area

Shoqata Social-Kulturore Shqiptaro-Amerikane Iliria is an Albanian-American social and cultural association based at 5208 Hampton Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri. The group describes itself, in its own words, as a gathering place for contributors and idea-generators working on intellectual, artistic, school, and sports activities for the Albanian-American community in St. Louis and the surrounding area.

The association runs a heritage school program for children in the community. Its website refers to a school secretariat (sekretaria e shkollës) and a governing board (Bordi drejtues) that handles registration, which places the school under the association's own governance structure rather than as an outside partner.

Cultural programming sits alongside the school. Members organize community gatherings such as the festa e lakrorit, the traditional Albanian pie festival, held locally in St. Louis. Event documentation on the association's Facebook page has included contributions from members like Florjan Mata, who filmed drone footage of one such gathering.

The organization supports its work through memberships and donations, accepted by mail to the Hampton Avenue address, by Venmo under Shoqata Iliria, by Zelle, by check made out to Shoqata Iliria, and by card through shoqatailiria.org. It maintains an active Facebook presence as Shoqata Shqiptaro-Amerikane 'Iliria' Saint Louis and a bilingual website in Albanian and English. The association is distinct from similarly named Iliria cultural groups based in Europe.

Researched by NAR from public sources: shoqatailiria.org · en.shoqatailiria.org · en.shoqatailiria.org · en.shoqatailiria.org · facebook.com · instagram.com

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