Храм Пресвятой Богородицы (Дейр-Атие)

Building up the Church of Our Lady of Deir Atieh in the current to the late thirteenth century, with the reconstruction of Deir Atieh II, and there is no data on the evolution of the church building until the nineteenth century with the end of the population of Deir Atieh four thousand people, a quarter of the Christians. During the reign of Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt to the Levant (1832-1840), completed the present format of the church and after a short period (mid-sixties of the nineteenth century) was built with a dome roof of the Eden Square poplar wood above and then placing a thick layer of mud a good unity, called the «gawk» capped by impermeable clay layer called «Troweling» facilitate the flow of rain has forced the ceiling-mounted stone arches of the stone Alnhit has one of the symbols in the architecture Qalamoun. In the year 1981 was the restoration of the church to replace the wooden roof of the mud roof of reinforced concrete with the preservation of the old arches and columns, but the weight of the concrete roof has led to cracks in the pillars and arches Alnhit, where they were replaced by columns and arches of Beitunia year 1993 with great care on the shape of the old church. Read on a laptop installed in the southern wall of the church the following words: «Artists have moved from house to house Baka Bishop Nikiforos Malola son of the late Georges Halabi, and Under-Christians deceased dragon and a dozen a month ago, in November 1808.» Flanked Balroaq President Roacan south and north and Ilasq gallery last gallery was up slightly from the corridors and dedicated seating for women, this separates the gallery from the rest of the so-called «poetry», a barrier of wooden rods allow the vision of women sitting in the corridor and obscure vision of the men had been removed in poetry Khmsinat In the last century has become the latest renovation gallery of women at the level of the land the church is now composed of four corridors. Contains the structure of the Church on the massacres of the three main altar does not have a due date, while the North and South in 1832 to 1843.

Источник: www.orthodoxdeiratyeh.org