My mom went to Saudi Arabia today, so we had to drive her to the airport in Beirut. We took it as an advantage to go around downtown Beirut (Verdun) for a while.
One of the buildings in Parliament Square
Virgin Megastore
Prime Minister Rafic Al-Hariri died on Feb 14, 2005 as a martyr for Lebanon. Someone (or some people?) put a bomb in his car. He was a great man who did amazing things for this country.
He built this mosque.
…and because he built that mosque he was buried in this memorial room, right next to the mosque.
Notice the statue in the mosque picture. My dad told me that the people in the statue are martyrs. One of the dude's name is George Haddad. They put this statue up when Turkey left Lebanon. Apparently during the Civil War, everything to the left of the statue is where the Christians lived, and everything to the right is where the Muslims lived.
Not all of Beirut is pretty and modern. There are still a lot of buildings and houses ruined from the war.
For example:
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