Maronites
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Maronites are a Syriac Christian ethnoreligious group native to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant whose members belong to the Maronite Church. The largest concentration has traditionally reside
Maronite villagers building a church in the region of Mount Lebanon, 1920s.
Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral Brooklyn in New York City.
Christ Pantocrator mosaic from Hagia Sophia 2240 x 3109 pixels 2.5 MB
Kahlil Gibran
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Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān, usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist. He was also considered a philosopher, although he himself rejected the ti
Maronites
…Maronite intellectuals contributed to the formation of modern Arab identity and Arab nationalism. Key figures include Naguib Azoury, Ameen Rihani and Kahlil Gibran. Youssef Bey Karam, a Maronite leader during the 19th century, in a letter to Emir Abdelkader encouraged him to liberate all Arabs from the Ottoman…
Gibran in 1913
The Gibran family in the 1880s
The Gibran family's home in Bsharri, Lebanon
F. Holland Day, c. 1898