Beirut Central District

CATHEDRAL SAINT GEORGE OF THE MARONITES. Built in 1890 by the Archbishop of Beirut, Mgr. Debs, after the model of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. It replaced an older and smaller church belonging to the same religious afBliation. Its Ottoman basement vaults now house one of the city's archeological workshops.

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