Early in the fourth quarter of the nineteenth century, Hazmieh was still a small village inhabited by few landlords and dozens of farmers. In 1878, Mr. Gibran Farah donated a plot of land to build a small church in the name of Mar Roukoz. With the passage of time and evolution of Hazmieh from a small village to an important suburb and then to an autonomous city, the sons of the town stood together to build a new church in 1932. The church has been renovated and expanded in the last decade of the last century to fulfil the aspirations of the people who called Hazmieh home and where their business grew.