كنيسة مار مارون - طرابلسبُنيت الكنيسة وسط مدينة طرابلس سنة ١٩٥٦ في عهد المثلث الرحمات المطران أنطون عبد، صمّمها المهندس الإيطاليّ بيار أريكوني. نمطها بازيليكيّ بشكل صليب لاتينيّ وقبّة، مع برج ساعة في مقدّمها. تتميّز الكنيسة بمذابحها من رخام الكرارة الإيطاليّ وهي من عمل مؤسسة شبطيني الطرابلسيّة. كذلك تتميّز بالأثاث البيعيّ الغربيّ الطراز. رمّم البناء سنة ٢٠٠١ بسعي المثلث الرحمات المطران يوحنا فؤاد الحاج.The church of St Maroun - TripoliThe church was built in 1956 during the pontificate of Archbishop Antoun Abed. It was designed by the italian architect Pierre Ariconi according to a latin cross basilical plan with a transept and a dome. The church holds a bell tower with a clock on the western front. The church interior has a neo gothic style with carrera marble altars made by the Chabtiny association from Tripoli. The church aslo holds western style church furnishings. The building was restored in 2001 during the pontificate of Archbishop Youhanna Fouad el Hajj.
The 3rd Patriarchal seat from 1120 to 1440 AD. This beautiful, small church dates to 1121 AD. There’s a tradition that the Monastery of Our Lady of Elij took the place of one of the train stations of the Roman road from Baalbak and the banks of Al Assi River to the North coast of Phoenicia. The apostles used this road during their trips between Antakya and the beaches of Palestine, and turning the place into a Christian one is attributed to them. (The apostles and students of St. Lucas).
The name of Elij is derived from the word “Eel”, from the Aramaic language, and it means “God of soft valley”. But from the Greek, it is derived from the word “Ellios” meaning “Goddess of the Sun”.
According to a Syriac inscription on the church wall (1277 AD.): “In the name of the eternally living God, in the year 1588 of the Greek era, this Jacobi temple was built for the Mother of God who prays for us, by the bishops Mark and John, in 1588 of the Greek era.” A cross was also engraved with a Syriac state “In You we conquer our enemy and in your name, we tread our haters”. There’s Syriac writing on the monastery’s wall: “In the name of the living God, in 1746 A.D, the two monk- brothers Amoun & Ming. It was established by four patriarches Botros, Ermia, Yaacoub, and Youhanna in 1121 A.D”.
The church is known for its ”Elij” icon of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ: while restoring it in 1985, Sisters of karlmalite-Harissa, researchers had found 10 different layers of paint, and the oldest one backed to the 10th century (every layer is over 100 year).
This monastery is the fourth oldest belonging to the Maronites. It is one of the most ancient Episcopal seats in Lebanon. It was built on the ruins of a pagan temple as mentioned before. It had witnessed all types of persecution and martyrdom for the name of Jesus Christ, in addition to the history and faith, in what it spared miracles and glorification of Virgin Mary. It is not an edifice, but it looks like a grotto, built in the valley amidst old trees, between the mountains and the rebellious course of two rivers, of soil-colored dabachi stones which cannot easily be seen under the walnut trees…
What is left of the monastery today are two floors. The church occupies the greatest part of the ground floor while the first floor contains a small loft and a wide hall. The patriarch lived on the upper floor, in the small loft, which can be reached either by an internal flight of stairs within the church, or by external stone stairs. There is also a secret access from the patriarch’s room to another hidden room or to the outside. A small window was opened in the patriarch’s room facing the Holy Sacrament and the icon of Our Lady of Elij over the main altar. Next to the church on the first floor, there are two rectangular rooms with low curved ceilings, open to each other by a small path on the west side, inside the separating wall.
The church is distinguished by its “Bema” (the throne in Greek), with stairs leading to it on the western side. The bema is a high tribune in the church where the first part of the Mass, the Liturgy of the Word, is celebrated, where the Patriarch sit with bishops. It is the only church in Lebanon that still keeping a bema. There are a number of basements (narrow tunnels) inside the walls used to hide and run during persecution, invasion and war. There is a library containing souvenirs: religious relics, photos, books, documentary, local products.
بُنيت الكنيسة الأولى للموارنة في مدينة الميناء أوائل القرن التاسع عشر، وكانت قبوًا مُعتمًا تحت الأرض. كانت الرعيّة آنذاك فقيرة جدًّا وعُهدت خدمتها للرهبان الأنطونيّين، فكان طعام خادم الرعيّة يصله من دير مار سركيس وباخوس إهدن. سنة ١٨٥٠ بُني الأنطوش، وسنة ١٨٨٩ كرّس المطران أسطفان عوّاد الكنيسة الحاليّة، فكان بناؤها بشكل عقدٍ مُصالب بحجرٍ رمليّ. رُمّمت أواخر القرن العشرين.
The presbytery of Our Lady of Deliverance - El Mina
The first maronite church was built in the Mina in the beginning of the XIXth century. It was then a small underground cellar. The parish was really poor, it was entrusted to an Antonine monk who’s food was brought from the monastery of Sts Sergius and Bacchus Ehden. In 1850 the presbytery was built, and in 1889 the current church was consecrated by Mgr. Estefan Awad Archbishop of Tripoli. The structure is a sandstone crossed vault, restored in the latter half of the XXth century.
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.
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