Saint Stephen church in Ain Tourine is dedicated to Stephen the first martyr in a village of the Ehden and Zgharta country. Ain Tourine shares the northern mountain world of stone houses, summer visitors and churches that fill on feast days. The building is a parish landmark, smaller than Batroun’s cathedral of the same saint but important locally. Dress modestly and combine the stop with Ehden if you are already on the mountain road. Use the village name in searches. It adds one more precise church to a northern itinerary that too often jumps from Zgharta straight to the cedars.
