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Wheelings Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church has been hosting its annual Mahrajan Festival at Oglebay Park for over 85 years. The festival began in 1933 as a fundraiser to rebuild the church, which had been lost to fire the year prior. Activities at the Mahrajan festival include a vast spread of Lebanese food--including kibbee, tabbouli, stuffed grape leaves, hummus, saj bread, and various Lebanese cookies and desserts, a sale of handcrafted Lebanese items, live music, Lebanese dancing, and a liturgy.To learn more about Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church, visit their website: http://www.ololwv.com/Also see interviews with church elders Carol Dougherty and Nick Ghaphery in the West Virginia Folklife Collection. The Dougherty interview is excerpted here: https://wvfolklife.org/2017/02/23/field-notes-carol-dougherty/

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Woman from the Maronite Catholic Church in Pittsburgh rolls saj bread before baking it on a saj (convex griddle) during the Mahrajan Festival at Oglebay Park

Identifier:
4224.MahrajanFestival.Photo.007.8.11.18
Title:
Woman from the Maronite Catholic Church in Pittsburgh rolls saj bread before baking it on a saj (convex griddle) during the Mahrajan Festival at Oglebay Park
Date:
2018-08-11
Creator:
Hilliard, Emily
Description:
Wheelings Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church has been hosting its annual Mahrajan Festival at Oglebay Park for over 85 years. The festival began in 1933 as a fundraiser to rebuild the church, which had been lost to fire the year prior. Activities at the Mahrajan festival include a vast spread of Lebanese food--including kibbee, tabbouli, stuffed grape leaves, hummus, saj bread, and various Lebanese cookies and desserts, a sale of handcrafted Lebanese items, live music, Lebanese dancing, and a liturgy.To learn more about Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church, visit their website: http://www.ololwv.com/Also see interviews with church elders Carol Dougherty and Nick Ghaphery in the West Virginia Folklife Collection. The Dougherty interview is excerpted here: https://wvfolklife.org/2017/02/23/field-notes-carol-dougherty/
Subject:
Oglebay Park (Wheeling, W. Va.), Bakers, Food habits, Wheeling, W.Va., Lebanese Americans, Festivals, foodways, Bread, and Cooking, Lebanese
Rights:
In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Location:
Wheeling (W. Va.)
Format:
image/tiff
Source:
A&M 4224, West Virginia Folklife Program Collection