1840 · 1860 · 1975–1990 · and after
This archive gathers the names, the places, the dates, and the testimonies of the massacres committed against the Christians of Lebanon. It does not seek revenge. It seeks record.
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13 events recorded
Chronological record of massacres, 1860 to the present.
9 regions
Geolocated incidents across Lebanon and the surrounding country.
5 recordings
Survivors and witnesses in their own words.
Scope & method
How persecution is documented, classified, and verified across the archive.
15 profiles
Assassinated, imprisoned, and exiled Christian leaders.
27 villages
Christian communities emptied and their return.
Decrees recorded
Laws and decrees against Christians and Lebanese sovereignty.
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Books, DVDs, photographs, and publications.
A statement of purpose
We keep this archive because a name written down is a name that cannot be disappeared a second time.
The Christians of Lebanon are one of the oldest continuous communities of the Near East. Their history includes long periods of coexistence, and it includes episodes of mass killing. This online museum records the second so that the first remains possible. Our mission is to cultivate peace, compassion, and unity to prevent future atrocities against Christians and all other communities.
An annual honor
Each year, this museum honors a living figure whose work protects vulnerable communities and builds bridges across the divisions that once produced these crimes. Nominations are open.
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Featured exhibit · 1976
A coastal town, its church, and its cemetery
The events at Damour in January 1976 remain among the most documented mass killings of the Lebanese civil war. This exhibit gathers the surviving photographs, the parish records, and the testimonies of families who returned decades later to a village that no longer recognized them.
Read the exhibitInstitutional partnership
This museum seeks to become a definitive record. We call on the United Nations, the Red Cross, academic institutions, and professors of history to help us enrich the archive with official documents, declassified records, oral-history projects, and peer-reviewed scholarship.
Every contribution is reviewed by the curatorial team and credited according to the contributor’s wishes.
Contact the curatorial teamLatest testimonies
2024 · Written testimony
"That night my father called from Beirut. He told me I was authorized to use what he had taught me — to open the safe, take out the grenade and the old Russian gun, and protect the family. I was fifteen. The first home attacked in Botmeh was ours."
George
Survivor, age 15 in 1977 · Botmeh, Chouf
2019 · 48 min
"We left the house with only the clothes we were wearing. My mother thought we were going for one night. She kept the key in her hand for thirty years."
Marie H.
Survivor, Damour · Damour, Mount Lebanon
2015 · 1 h 12 min
"The bells did not ring that morning. That is how the mountain knew."
Father Elias
Parish priest · Ehden, North Lebanon