Last Update November 2007

The New Club

     The St. Mary Musical Society boasts of several properties it owns which are useful for the modern smooth running. First it has a big Fireworks Factory in the outskirts of Qrendi, The Gawhra Complex,a three storey building which consists of a workshop, store for decorations and a hall where social functions are held and which is rented out, a piece of land near it for  future developement and enlargement of the hall and the last but not  least the land where the new club is being build.

     The society has a rented club at the present, but it has always  been the dream of all to have our own premises and club. So at last on the 16th June 1996 the news spread out that after various difficult and secret negotiations the committee had finalised the buying of a piece of land in a strategic place near the church. The contract was signed in October 1996 by Notary Mario Bugeja LL.D . In November they celebrated this event with a band march around Qrendi and a reception in the Gawhra hall.

   The application for the building Permit was granted on the 15th June 1997. A plan for the facade was designed by Innocent Centorrino and with the help of Hank Catania it was computerised. The inside plan was made by Emanuel Zammit & Associates, Architects, Civil Engineers & Cost Consultants and Architect Karmenu Vella A&CE,MP.
   The plan represents a great challenge for any builder. The length  is ninety-seven feet and two storeys above ground and basement. Each  storey has a portico on six majestic columns which have already arrived from Sicily made from Pietra Di Modica . The order of the first storey is Tuscan and of the second, Dorika. The school is  of Chambers the same one which the old Royal Theatre in Valletta had. When ready, it would have been ages since any structure like it,was built in Malta

The work in the basement where there is a big well roofed with stone arches