Haï el Knissé
Haï el Knissé is a locality in Mount Lebanon, Lebanon. Haï el Knissé is situated nearby to the locality Haï es Sahel, as well as near the village Haret Hreik.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Museum of Beirut and Rafic Hariri University Hospital.
National Museum of Beirut
Museum
Photo: Elie plus, Public domain.
The National Museum of Beirut is the principal museum of archaeology in Lebanon. The collection begun after World War I, and the museum was officially opened in 1942. National Museum of Beirut is situated 3 km north of Haï el Knissé.
Rafic Hariri University Hospital
Hospital
The Rafik Hariri University Hospital, formerly known as the Beirut Governmental University Hospital, is the largest Lebanese public hospital. It is located on the outskirts of Beirut.
Horsh Beirut
Park
Horsh Beirut is an urban park in the heart of the capital of Lebanon, Beirut. The urban park is also known as Horsh El Snaubar. The park covers about 0.3 square kilometres of green space within municipal Beirut.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Haret Hreik and Dahieh.
Haret Hreik
Village
Photo: Bertramz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Haret Hreik is a mixed Shia and Maronite Christian municipality, in the Dahieh suburbs, south of Beirut, Lebanon. It is part of the Baabda District. Once an agricultural and Christian village, Haret Hreik lost its rural and Christian identity due to the wave of Shia Muslim refugees from Southern Lebanon who settled in the town and made it another urban neighborhood of Dahieh.
Dahieh
Suburb
Photo: Bertramz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dahieh is a predominantly Shia Muslim suburb in the south of Beirut, in the Baabda District of Lebanon. It has a minority of Sunni Muslims, Christians, and a Palestinian refugee camp with 20,000 inhabitants.
Beirut
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Beirut is the capital city of Lebanon with a population of approximately 2.1 million people in its metropolitan area. The city is on a relatively small headland jutting into the east Mediterranean.
Haï el Knissé
- Type: Locality
- Also known as: “Hai el Knisse” and “Ḩayy al Kanīsah”
- Location: Mount Lebanon, Lebanon, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.8525° or 33° 51′ 9″ northLongitude
35.50389° or 35° 30′ 14″ eastElevation
45 metres (148 feet)Open location code
8G5QVG23+XHGeoNames ID
6274926
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In Other Languages
“Haï el Knissé” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “حي الكنيسة”
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Localities in the Area
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