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Exterior of Saint Elias Antonine Monastery, Monastery in Kneiseh, Lebanon
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Saint Elias Antonine Monastery

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Saint Elias Antonine Monastery is a Maronite monastery in Kneiseh, Baabda District, built in the early 1850s. Dedicated to the Prophet Elijah, venerated across Maronite, Orthodox, Melkite, and Muslim communities alike in Lebanon. Kneiseh — literally "the church" in Arabic — sits in the hills above Baabda, its monastery now a retreat and formation center for the Antonine Order.
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Kneiseh, Baabda, Mount Lebanon Governorate

denomination

Maronite

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