Cathedral of St. George

Beirut’s main Orthodox church is located on Star Square in front of Lebanon’s parliament. The Cathedral of St. George is the oldest church of the Lebanese capital, the first temple on this site was built in the early fourth century.

The modern cathedral building was built in 1772 in the characteristic Byzantine style. In terms, it is a rectangle thirty meters long and twenty meters wide. The central portal of the temple is decorated with an elegant arcade. The interior of the cathedral is painted with multicolored frescoes of the early XX century. The most interesting detail of the interior decoration of the temple is the carved iconostasis of the eighteenth century, whose height is eight meters.

The cathedral was badly damaged during the Lebanese civil war. Restoration work, in which Russian restorers took part, was completed only in 2003.