Saraaine El Tahta, Lebanon

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Saraaine El Tahta
سرعين التحتا
Saraaine El Tahta is located in Lebanon
Saraaine El Tahta
Saraaine El Tahta
Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°53′10″N 36°4′4″E / 33.88611°N 36.06778°E / 33.88611; 36.06778
Country Lebanon
GovernorateBaalbek-Hermel
DistrictBaalbek
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)+3

Saraaine El Tahta (Arabic: سرعين التحتا) (also spelled Sareen, Serraine El Tahta, Saraain El Tahta) is a village in the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate in eastern Lebanon. Its inhabitants are Christians.[1]

The Church of Saint Georges in Saraaine was destroyed during the war in 1976. Under the auspices of Bishop Al-Hashem, the Bishop of Baalbeck, and the patronage of Ms. Manell P. Brice, a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Maronite Studies, the rebuilding of the church began in 1999. There are five churches in Saraaine El Tahta: Saint Elias (Maronite Church), Saint Challita (Maronite Church), Saint Georges (Maronite Church), Saint Elias (Catholic Orthodox Church) and The Shrine of Our Lady of Birth.[citation needed]

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  1. ^ "Municipal and ikhtiariah elections in the Beqa'a 147 municipalities and 414 mokhtars" (PDF). The Monthly Magazine. February 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04.

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