Syria

Yabroud

Is villages located in the Anti Lebanon Mountains. This village is of great importance to the Christian faith. 

This small beautiful town is set amid a limestone amphitheater, with shade cast by the many apricot, poplar, and weeping willow trees. 

This village has evidence that man had settled here tens of thousands years ago. The Cathedral of Constantine and Helen, a Greek Catholic church, is built out of many of the blocks that came from an old temple dedicated to Jupiter known to the locals as Jupiter Yabroudis. This church contains an interesting collection of icons, and the cases of some Roman columns can also be found.