Lebanon’s only church-bell maker on keeping a 300-year family tradition alive
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Naffah Naffah makes the bells in the mountains near Beirut. His sons will take over the foundry when he retires The story of Lebanon’s last remaining church-bell maker begins with a rifle. In the 18th century, Youssef Gabriel, a local metalworker, was secretly making and equipping Arab revolutionaries with rifles to…
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