Bzommar Monastery

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Bzommar (also Zmmar , Armenian Զմմառ , Arabic بزمار) is an Armenian Catholic monastery in Lebanon .

Bzommar Monastery

The convent is located 30 kilometers from Beirut on a wooded hill at an altitude of 930  m . From 1749 to 1866 and again since 1928, Bzommar is the official residence and residence of the Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia . Bzommar is also the seat of the religious order of the Armenian Catholic Patriarchal Institute (ICPB) .

The oldest manuscript fragment of the Chronicle of Matthias of Edessa , dating from 1323, is kept in the library of Bzommar .

gallery

  • Bzommar Monastery

  • Bzommar Monastery, the tower

  • Notr Dam Church

  • The monastery museum

  • A passage from the thorn of Christ

  • The remains of the cross of Jesus

  • The monastery chapel

  • In the monastery chapel

Individual evidence

  1. ^ | Catalog of the library of the monastery in Bzommar.

Coordinates: 33 ° 59 ′ 3.7 ″  N , 35 ° 41 ′ 3 ″  E