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Baalbek District, Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon

Feeki

Feeki in 2010. The white dome on the left is the same basilica the village built in 1937, finished now; the cemetery lies below it and the bare mountain still stands behind.

It is 05:43 there right now.

The village in the northern Bekaa Valley where the Kallas family has lived for roughly four hundred years. The name is held to be Hellenic in origin, meaning water spring, and predates the Arab period. Lebanese administrative records list the village under a later Arabized form.

Feeki

The record

Published name: Feeki
Also recorded as: Fakeha Fakiha Fekeheh فاكهة Fake
Coordinates: 34.24556, 36.40583 Open a map

Sources and notes

Origin and meaning of the name: family tradition, source to be recorded. Coordinates and administrative district: Lebanese government records.

Born here

Photographs

2010
2010

Stories set here

Then and now

73 years between these two.

The basilica of Saint George going up. The whole village is on the scaffolding — on the domes, on the vaults, on ladders — to see the work finished. — 1937. The basilica of Saint George going up. The whole village is on the scaffolding — on the domes, on the vaults, on ladders — to see the work finished.

Feeki in 2010. The white dome on the left is the same basilica the village built in 1937, finished now; the cemetery lies below it and the bare mountain still stands behind. — 2010. Feeki in 2010. The white dome on the left is the same basilica the village built in 1937, finished now; the cemetery lies below it and the bare mountain still stands behind.