Saint Takla Church in Mrouj was first built in the early 18th century, then given to the Lebanese Maronite Order in 1792 to restore and provide pastoral care to the Christian subjects of the Abi al-Lamah lords. The monks enlarged the church in 1829, and it took its current single-nave basilical form in 1929. Among its collection of old and modern artwork from various schools, the most notable is a painting of Saint Thecla by the celebrated Lebanese painter Habib Srour. Mrouj sits at 1,220 meters in the Metn highlands, its Saint Takla Festival held each September drawing the largely Maronite village together in its central square.