Bejdarfel is a Lebanese village located at an altitude 430 meters
above sea-shore level. The village is
situated on the hills overlooking the Batroun villages from
several sides.
Boundaries: Bejdarfel is surrounded by Kour from the East, Ejdabrafrom the west, Ibrine from the north and bounded by Kfifan from the south, where is the Monastery of Saints Cyprian and Justina.
Bejdarfel is
a part of Batroun Districtand
is 58 km away from the city of Beirut,
8 km away from the city of Batroun district center and 36 km away from the city
of Tripoli county center, which is the second biggest city in
Lebanon. To
reach it you drive up from Batroun, passing throughEjdabra, Ibrine,
and before turning into the Ibrine village
intersection you turn right.Newly you can reach it from
Ejdabravia road "Karem Sah".
Name and meaning
Bejdarfel is an ancient village,which includes ruins dating back over
two thousand years before the time of Christ, as stated on
the boards centered at the entrances to the town.
Bejdarfel is an ambiguous name may
be from the Syriac, which means “house of Elephant
rivulet” or from the Aramaic “beged” is “the garment, or
the treason” + name “Rafael”.
This namemaybecompound of “bet
gdar fila” from Syriac. The
first part means: Place andlocality, the second part means: brook, rivulet and
the third part means: elephant. The meaningshall
be place or site of elephant rivulet.
Or it may be compound of two parts
from Phoenician and Aramaic “beged” in the sense of garment and clothes and treason and treachery.
And “Rafael”in
the sense of “God healing” or “God
wellness”, from the root “rafa” common semitism meanssoft, welfare and healing. It may be in the name “gad” is also the God
of luck.
Population Bejdarfel
has a population of more than 1200registered
people, and the number of
electors Spring 2009 is 815, and the voters at summer 2009 are 612 votes.
Distributed sectarian to 97% Maronites and 3% Christian denominations. The number of her dwellings is 200 and the number of
non-residential institutions is 23.
·The remnants of old buildings and sarcophaguses
in the locality “El-Rooss”, located
on the outskirts of the town.
·In the locality of “El-Mazaree” a rock carved in the form
of a cow or a calf.
Houses of worship
·Church of St. Pantaleon, the patron saint of women
infertile who rush to visit his headquarters, a request to give birth. This
church was built around the year 1763.
·A church on the name of St. Anthony
of Padua built in 1911.
·A church on the name of St. Lucian of Antioch, the patron saint of eyes, built in 1880.
Religious feasts
·Feast of St. Lucian at July 22.
·Feast of St. Pantaleon at July 27.
·Feast of St. Anthony
of Padua at 13 June.
Official bodies
The official body composed from one mayor and
three members of the mayoral body.