Saydet El Habes Church

The Church of Our Lady of Imprisonment is located in the city of Aqoura, and it is considered one of the oldest Catholic churches in Lebanon. It sits on a hill that was also called “Our Lady of Imprisonment.” This is because a number of monks resorted to it to hide away from what they were suffering from injustice and persecution, and inside the cave there is also a spring of water. Next to the church, there is a long staircase that leads to the mountain and to the shrine of Our Lady of Confinement. As for the shrine of Our Lady of Confinement, it consists of a chapel, a church, staircases, and statues of the twelve apostles, and a statue of Maron and Mar Charbel, and in its vicinity a group of shrines and a group of statues of the apostles, and at the bottom of the large staircase, there is a green yard and flower beds in addition to 15 shrines for all the churches in which they are held. religious ceremonies.