يعود بنا هذه الكنيسة إلى القرون الوسطى وتتألف من كنيستين:الكنيسة القديمة جدرانها مكسوة بالجداريات. هي من النوادر في العمارة الكنيسة لأن فيها حنيتان يتوسطهم رسم المصلوب. مواضيع الجداريات: الشفاعة، العذراء على العرش محاطة بمار بطرس وبولس، ذبيحة النبي ابراهيم، آثار لجدرانيات أخرى باتت مندثرة.اما الكنيسة الثانية فهي أحدث عهداً ملاصقة للأولى، مبنية على النمط البازيليكي بثلاث اسواق، وامامها رواق بالحجر المعقود.بقيت الكنيسة مستخدمة الى القرن التاسع عشر حين نزح آخر موارنة البلدة. ومنذ عام ٢٠١٢ انطلق مشروع ترميم الكنيسة.This church is built in the medieval ages, and is composed of two parts:The old church has walls filled with frescoes. It is one of the very rare churches in which you can see the crucified drawn between two naves.The drawings are as follows:The Deisis, Mary the throne of wisdom, surrounded by Saints Peter and Paul, Abraham's sacrifice, in addition to different frescoes that are damaged and can hardly be seen now.The second church is just next to the first, but built in a later era, in a basilical form with three aisles.The church was still in use by the maronite community until the 19th century.Since 2012 a project to renew the church was launched.
بُنيت الكنيسة سنة ١٩٠٩ في عهد البطريرك الياس بطرس الحويك، لتصبح الكنيسة الرعائيّة لضيق الكنيسة القديمة. البناء كناية عن عقدٍ مصالبٍ، بنتهي بحنية وثلاث مذابح: مار نوهرا والسيّدة ومار يوسف. في وسط الكنيسة مذبح لمار جرجس. الكنيسة محافظة على طابعها الأوّل وهي تمثل فنّ أوائل القرن العشرين. للكنيسة مدخلين مزخرفين للرجال والنساء. تضم الكنيسة عددًا من اللوحات أهمّها لمار نوهرا وهي محليّة الصنع.
The church of St Nouhra - Bqorqasha
The church of St Nouhra (Logius the martyr) was built in 1909 during the pontificate of patriarch Elias Boutros El Howayek, after the local parish became too small for the community. The structure consists of a crossed vault ending with three altars: St Nouhra, the Madonna, and St Joseph. In the middle of the church stands a side altar dedicated to St George. The church conserves the original decor of the early XXth century. The church has two ornamented entrances to separate men and women’s seating places. It also holds many paintings the most important being a local icon of Saint Nouhra.
Mar Youhanna El Maam - Church, Deir Hrach, Lebanon
دير مار يوحّنا المعمدان القديم
1570
Ain Er-Rihane
Keserwan
Mount Lebanon
دير مار يوحّنا المعمدان القديم - حراش عين الريحانة
بنى الدير القديم سنة ١٥٧٠ سليمان الحاج إبن حبيش على اسم مار يوحنّا المعمدان. وهو كناية عن كنيسةٍ بعقدٍ سريريٍّ عالٍ، وبعض القلالي. أصبح الدّير كرسيًّا أسقفيًّا لدمشق وبيروت تباعًا. سنة ١٦٤٢ إشتراه الأسقف يوسف حليب العاقوري وبنى سنة ١٦٤٣ الدّير الجديد الذي جعله مسكنًا للراهبات. سنة ١٦٤٤ أصبح الدّير مع انتخاب يوسف العاقوري، كرسيًّا بطريركيًّا. سكن الدّير العديد من الأساقفة في القرنين التاليين وجعله البطريرك ميخائيل فاضل مقرًّا له. في القرن التاسع عشر وُسّع الديّر وجُعل ديرًا للإبتداء. أهميّة هذا الدّير عدا عن كونه مقرًّا بطريركيًّا هو بناؤه في الفترة الأولى بعد عودة الموارنة إلى كسروان، كذلك إحتضانه لأولى الأديار القانونيّة، وتنفيذه لقرار لفصل أديار الرهبان عن الراهبات بعد المجمع اللبنانيّ سنة ١٧٣٦.
The old monastery of St John - Hrash Aïn el rihane
The monastery was built in 1570 by Sleiman el Hajj Hobeish. He dedicated a church and some adjacent cells to St John the baptist. The church is a high crib vault with many spolias used in the building. The monastery was used as an episcopal seat to the sees of Beirut and Damscus. In 1642 bishop Youssef Halib el Aqoury bought the old monastery and built the nunery the next year. Upon bishop’s Youssef election in 1643 the monastery became a patriarchal see. After him many bishops resided, and Patriarch Michael Fadel also took it as his see. In the XIXth century the monastery became a noviciate. The importance of this monastery to the church resides in it’s being a patriarcal seat, it was built right after the return of the Maronites to Kesserwan, it was one of the first headquarters to a canonical monastic order after the Lebanese council of 1736.
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.
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