كنيسة السيّدة - مراح الزيّاتالكنيسة قديمة العهد وتاريخ بنائها مجهول. في الكنيسة العديد من الحجار المقصوبة المأخوذة من قلعة سمار جبيل القريبة. البناء كناية عن عقد سريريّ ينتهي بحنية نصف دائريّة. تضمّ الكنيسة لوحتين من القرن التاسع عشر: الأولى للعذراء من عمل كنعان ديب والثانية لمار جرجس من عمل المستشرق البولونيّ بول شلافاك.The church of Our Lady - Mrah El ZayatThe church is an old structure with an unknown history. The structure is a crib vault ending with a semi circular apse, with many spolias from the nearby Smar Jbeil castle. The church holds two XIXth century paintings: the Madonna by Kanaan Dib and St George by the polish orientalist Paul Shlavat.
ابتدأ بناؤها سنة ١٨٩٠ وانتهى سنة ١٩١٢. تتميّز بجمال هندستها بحسب الطراز البازيليكيّ الأصيل، وبضخامتها وارتفاع قبّتها بما يقارب ٤٠ مترًا وجمال مذابحها الرخاميّة المصنوعة في إيطالية. صحنها مقسوم ثلاثة أقسام يفصل بين كلٍّ منها صفٌّ من ست ركائز ضخمة من كلّ جهة.
The church of Our Lady of Deliverance - Kfarsghab
The construction of the church began in 1890 and was completed in 1912. The church is a huge basilical structure with a 40 meter bell tower and a three aisle nave with six columns on each side. The church holds magnificent carrera marble altars from Italy.
Saint Elie church- كنيسة مار الياس, Aaqoura, Lebanon
كنيسة مار الياس
Aaqoura
Jbeil
Mount Lebanon
كنيسة مار الياس - العاقورة
هي كنيسة صغيرة مسقوفة بُنيت أواخر القرن التاسع عشر، زُخرف بابها وأُضيفت لها القبّة في خمسينيّات القرن العشرين، رُمّمت وأخذت شكلها الحاليّ سنة ٢٠١٦.
The church of St Elijah - Aaqoura
The church is a small roofed structure built in the late XIXth century. During the mid XXth century the main door was decorated with arabesques and a bell tower was added to the structure. It was restored and took its current form in 2016.
The convent’s ancient origin is attached to a legend. A rich man of the region committed adultery; filled with remorse, he attached a padlocked iron chain to his ankle and threw the key into the sea-shore and survived on the fish brought to him by local fishermen, who called him the guardian of the cavern. One day, a fisherman brought him a fish, in whose entrails the hermit found the key of the padlock. He knew then that God had delivered him from his suffering, and he built a convent above the cavern. He dedicated it to The Mother of God, but it also took the name of the Guardian.
The daily life of the convent is regulated by the flow of visitors who come to fulfill vows and make prayers. Sister Catherine al-Jamal is the principal resident of Dayr al-Natour, and she has done everything within her power to restore it.
According to the Crusader document, the Monastery of the Presentation of Our Lady Natour was built by Cistercians. Indeed, the Church interior resembles that of the Cistercian Church of Balamand, built in 1157. Otherwise, the history of Dayr al-Natour is hidden in obscurity, although it is said that the local Orthodox community took it over after the departure of the Crusaders. Its name is almost unmentioned by historical sources during the Mamluk and most of the Ottoman period, although it is reported that French corsairs attacked the Monastery at the beginning of the eighteenth century and killed a monk.
In 1838, the Ottoman authorities gave permission to the Monastery to be rebuilt. In the second half of the nineteenth century, it contained several monks and a superior, and it possessed fifteen dunums of land. During the First World War, it was bombarded by a Russian ship. A few years later, the Monastery lost its last Superior, Basilios Debs, who became Archbishop of Akkar. After his departure, monastic life ended at Dayr al-Natour.
During the twentieth century, the deserted monastery became a refuge for shepherds from the neighboring regions. In 1973, Sister Catherine al-Jamal moved to Dayr al-Natour and began to restore it from its ruin.
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