Monastery of Our Lady of Kaftoun is a Greek Orthodox monastery founded in the 6th century and carved into a red limestone cliff above the Nahr el Jaouz in Koura District, with 9th-century documents attesting its existence still held in Oxford's libraries. Early in its history it was served by Maronite clergy, but after Mamluk raids ownership passed to Orthodox hermits, and it is now run by a small community of nuns. It houses a revered double-faced Byzantine icon of the Virgin Hodegetria, dated to the 11th century, which was restored in France before returning to the monastery in 1997. Opposite stands the ruined 6th-century basilica of Saints Sergius and Bacchus. The village's name, rooted in the rock-hewn dwellings that shaped it, reflects the monastery's cave-cut church.