page_title: Labweh
section_title: Roman temple
hierarchical_section_title: Labweh / Roman temple
caption_attribution_description: English: fort of labweh Français&#160;: forteresse de Labweh
context_page_description: Labweh, Laboué, Labwe or Al-Labweh is a village at an elevation of 950 metres on a foothill of the Anti-Lebanon mountains in Baalbek District, Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon. It is famous because of the archaeological remains, like a Roman temple converted in a Byzantine fortress.
context_section_description: There are the ruins of a Roman temple in the village that are included in a group of Temples of the Beqaa Valley.
  It was a prostyle type but only one block of the western wall remained visible. Modern construction built a house inside the temple. There are around twenty temples located between Labweh and Ain el-Baid.
   (The Roman temple was) converted into a fortress in a later era, the building blocks were used as reinforcements. A single section of the west wall remains in place, otherwise, only the podium (floor) of the temple is still visible.
  George F. Taylor divided up the Temples of Lebanon into three groups, one covering the Beqaa valley north of the road from Beirut to Damascus. Secondly a group to the south, including the Wadi al-Taym known as Temples of Mount Hermon. Thirdly a group in the area west of a line drawn along the ridge of Mount Lebanon.
  The Temples of the Beqaa Valley in Taylor's first group included Labweh, Yammoune, Qasr Banat, Iaat, Nahle, Baalbek, Hadet, Kasr Neba, Temnin el-Foka, Nebi Ham, Saraain El Faouqa, Niha, Hosn Niha, Fourzol and Kafr Zebad.
caption: Remains of a Roman temple, later converted in a Byzantine fortress
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