بناها الخوري يوحنا إبن الخوري فرج الحداد، وقد عُثرَ على قرطاس في كنيسة تحوم يؤيّد ذلك.وكنيسة مار روحانا مشيّدة على بقايا برج روماني قديم آثاره ما زالت ماثلة، فزاويته الجنوبيّة الغربيّة راسخة على حجارة ضخمة من نفس مقلع حجارة بعلبك بحسب الخبراء. اما درج الكنيسة فداخليّ، وفي خاصرة حنية الكنيسة حجرة مخفية أعدّها القدماء مدفنًا لكنوزهم.وبالقرب من هذا المعبد، اكتشف الأثريّون مدافن قديمة واستدلّوا على منزلة مهمة لمن سكن في هذه الأماكن الأثريّة.تجدر الإشارة إلى أنّ مار روحانا المرنّم هو لقب محبّب للسريان معناه الروحانيّ، يطلق على مار قبريانوس الناسك.St Rouhana’s church - Aïn kfaaIt was built by Fr. Youhanna son of Fr. Faraj Al Haddad, as it is attested in a manuscript belonging to the parish of Thoum.The church is built on top of an old roman tour, the stones of which are quarried from the same source as the Great temples of Baalbek. The church has an indoor stone ladder.Near the church many roman ruins where found and a noble necropolis.St Rouhana the cantor is a title given by the syriacs and is translated to "the spiritual", it is given to St Cyprian the hermit.
House and the Church of St. God's grace (Neamtallah) Hardini Lebanese Maronite Order, Hardine, Lebanon
بيت وكنيسة القديس نعمة الله الحرديني
Hardine
Batroun
North
Hardine’s name is derived from the Syriac language meaning ‘pious’, Witness of justice, Ardent in faith and Square of religion.
It is located about 1100m. above sea level. A large area of very thick forests surrounds it and the following ruins of its inveterate past decorate its mountain terraces:
-The «rocky tile of Hardine» with its marine fossils and its unique length of 350 m along a slope to the west and its width of nearly l00m. Some one said, «The three most beautiful in Mount Lebanon are the valley of Kannoubine, The Palace of Beit Eddine and the tile of Hardine».
–The Temple of God Mercury With 30 majestic pillars built according to the rare ionic style. This temple known as «the roman Palace of Hardine». It’s a really fantastic one; it goes back to the time of Emperor Hadrian Augustus (117-137 A.D).
-“St Fawka’s” monastery (6th century)
-“Patriarchal monastery” since the Maronites came to Lebanon, known as “St. Sergios Alkarn”.
-“St John Alchakf” monastery, since the days of the Crusaders.
-“St Taqla” church in Beit Kassab square. It was the father of St Hardidni, who first started its renovation in the 19th Century.
-The church and hermitage of “St Stephan” in a hollow in a light rock over the Plain of Al Jawz River.
-The ruins of “St Richa’s” monastery, where the Syriac Diocese was moved between 1384 and 1598.
-The hermitages of “St Joseph”, “Ste Anne”, “St Ephram” the Syriac, “St Jacob Jesus’ brother” and “the pottery monastery” in the hollows of Kfarshira, and “the Lady of the Castle” in the hollow of the water spring.
-The Church of “St. Georges and Edna” which is distinguished Christian inscriptions (fish and cross).
-The churches of “St Elias”, “St Challita and Nohra” in the hollows engraved in the rocks, the old parish churches, like “St. Sergios and Bacchus” (rebui1t in 1932). “the Lady of deliverance” (rebuilt in 1948). The current one is St. Shayna” (1844), and finally the church of “St. Tadros” with its maronite alter, The two rebuilt churches of “St. Antonios of Padova” (1907), “St. Thomas” (1950) and the church of “Ste Theresa of the Baby Jesus” (1946).
-The monastery of St. Hardini» built with the donations of the people from Hardine in Lebanon and all over the world.
– Hardine is the hometown of one of Lebanon’s four saints, Saint Nimatullah Hardini (1808-58) who was canonised by Roman Catholic Pope John Paul II in 2004.
The village is naturally protected by the valleys and the rocky mountains around it making it an ideal place for the then new religion (Christianity) to flourish.
Legend has it that in 270AD, a Roman official imprisoned his daughter in Hardine for converting to Christianity. She converted many others in Hardine to the Christian faith.
بنى أمراء آل شهاب قصرًا لهم في غزير مع بداية القرن التاسع عشر ما لبث أن باعه الأمير عبدالله شهاب للآباء اليسوعيّين سنة ١٨٤٣ لتأسيس مدرسة إكليريكيّة. سنة ١٨٨١ بنيت كنيسة مار يوسف الكبيرة. سنة ١٩١٤ طرد العثمانيّون الرهبان من الدّير، ليعودوا بعد الحرب ويؤسسوا ميتمًا في رحابه. سنة ١٩٣٤ أصبح الدّير إكليريكيّة بإدارة اليسوعيّين. اشترى الدّير أخيرًا البطريرك أنطونيوس خريش سنة ١٩٧٦، ليصبح شرعًا مبنى الإكليريكيّة البطريركيّة المارونيّة. عدّل بناء الدّير عدّة مرّات وأضيف عليه عدّة مبانٍ على مراحل. يحوي العديد من الأجنحة ويحوي إضافةً لكنيسته الكبرى اربعة كنائس: مار مارون شفيع الإكليريكيّة، البشارة، مار شربل، والقدّيسة رفقا التي خدمت في الدّير ردحًا من الزمن.
The Maronite Patriarchal Seminary - Ghazir
In the early XIXth century the Chehaby princes of Ghazir built a palace that prince Abdallah Chehab sold to the Jesuits in 1843, to build a seminary. In 1881 the grand church was built and dedicated to St Joseph. In 1914 the Ottomans occupied the seminary, it was reopened at the end of the war as a foster home. In 1934 the Jesuits reopened the seminary. In 1976 Patriarch Khoreiche bought the building from the Jesuits to house the Maronite Patriarchal Seminary. The building was renovated and repurposed many times. It holds many wings, the church of St Joseph, and four other chapels: St Maroun the patron of the seminary, St Charbel, The Annunciation, St Rafqa who served as a nun in Ghazir during her lifetime.
بنى الأمير بشير الثاني قصرًا عائليًّا خاصًّا سنة ١٨٢٨ على رابيةٍ فوق بيت الدّين. سنة ١٨٦١ أهدى الإمبراطور نابوليون الثالث رتاجًا كبيرًا لمدخل القصر. سنة ١٨٦٣ إشترى المطران بطرس البستاني القصر من الأميرة حسن جهان وحوّله إلى كرسيّ أسقفيّ لأبرشيّة صيدا، على اسم مار شليطا الذي له كنيسة صغيرة داخل المبنى. سنة ١٩٢٧ بنى المطران أغوسطينوس البستاني كنيسة سيّدة الخلاص بنمط عصر النهضة بما تضمّ من زجاجيّات ومذابح ولوحات. تعرّض البناء للضرر خلال الحرب العالميّة الثانية وحرب الجبل. رمّم وشهد مصالحة الجبل سنة ٢٠٠٠ مع البطريرك نصرالله صفير الذي أخذ من الكرسيّ مقرًّا له.
The episcopal seat of our Lady of Deliverance - Beit el Din
In 1828 Prince Bachir II Chehab built a private palace on the outskirts of Beit el Din. Empror Napoleon III gave the palace a grand entry gate. In 1863 princess Hesn Jihan sold the palace to Archbishop Boutros el Boustany who made it the episcopal seat of the eparchy of Sidon, dedicated to St Chalita (Artemius) who had a small chapel inside the building. In 1927 Archbishop Augustin el Boustany built the church of Our Lady of Deliverance in a renaissance style. The building was damaged in World War II and the Lebanese civil war. The structure was restored and saw the pact of reconciliation in the year 2000 with Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir.
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