SAINT ABDA -ZIKRIT_Mount-Lebanon

The Saint-Abda monastery - Zikrit, known as "el Mchamar" - meaning the Sentinel in ancient dialect - was built on a hill near the river called "Nahr El Kalb" on the ruins of a Roman temple following the Mamluk campaign on Mount Lebanon in 1685. The Antonine Maronite Order acquired the monastery and the monks rebuilt a new church on the old one in 1810. The main painting of Saint Abda dates from 1884.