Qasr Chbib is a complex of two

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s situated a few hundred meters from the summit of

Mount Hermon Mount Hermon ( ar, جبل الشيخ or جبل حرمون / ALA-LC: ''Jabal al-Shaykh'' ("Mountain of the Sheikh") or ''Jabal Haramun''; he, הַר חֶרְמוֹן, ''Har Hermon'') is a mountain cluster constituting the southern end of th ...

. Officially in the

Quneitra District Quneitra (or al-Qunaytirah) District ( ar-at, منطقة القنيطرة, manṭiqat al-Qunayṭrah) is one of the two districts of the Quneitra Governorate in southern Syria. It is the northern of the two districts, with Fiq District to the s ...

of Syria,

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shows the ruins to be in the

Hasbaya District The Hasbaya District is a district in the Nabatiyeh Governorate of Lebanon. It lies in the southeast, bordering Syria. The capital of the district is Hasbaya Hasbeya or Hasbeiya ( ar, حاصبيا) is a town in Lebanon, situated at the foot of ...

of the

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Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue ...

. Both of the sanctuaries have northern walls that were carved out of solid bedrock. The western temple has an area at the back in place of an

Adyton The adyton ( , 'innermost sanctuary, shrine', ) or (Latin) was a restricted area within the cella of a Greek or Roman temple. The ''adyton'' was frequently a small area at the farthest end of the cella from the entrance: at Delphi it measured j ...

that was also hewn out of the rock escarpment.

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suggested that this design was employed to bring the temples ''"closer to the gods"''.

References

External links

Rashaya seen from the summit of Mount Hermon on padpal.coQasr Chbib on geographic.org
* ttp://www.discoverlebanon.com/en/panoramic_views/roman-temples-lebanon.php Roman Temples on discoverlebanon.combr>Qasr Chbib on itouchmap.com3D map of Qasr Chbib on gmap3d.comQasr Chbib on mapatlas.org
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