© Khalil Itani's Archive


Name of Object:

Beirut Tramway station

Location:

Beirut, Lebanon

Holding Institution:

Khalil Itani's Archive

 About The Lebanese University, Beirut

Date of Object:

1908

Author:

Kakhbaian

Provenance:

Lebanon

Description:

This photograph shows the main tramway station in Beirut, located on Corniche el Nahr Street by the river in the district of Burj Hammud. It was constructed in 1906 under the command of the Ottoman government, and housed the carts and the engineering station.

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

Fu`ad Debbas’s Archive

Citation of this web page:

Jeff El-Msanne, Rita El Hachem "Beirut Tramway station" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;lb;7;en

Prepared by: Jeff El-Msanne, Rita El Hachem
Copyedited by: Flaminia Baldwin

MWNF Working Number: LB 014

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