(Tomb
of the Imam Ouzai 3 km)
A tiny hamlet known as Hantous once stood by the seaside in
Beirut's southern suburbs. Today all that remains of this
settlement is a small 8th century mosque built in the Abbasid
era.
The mosque itself is very simple, with an
elongated design built in two different periods. The older
part, which bears the marks of relatively recent
remolding, has a prayer hall with a marble |