Moussa Sursock Palace

Moussa Sursock Palace is a large nineteenth-century mansion in the Sursock quarter of Achrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon, completed in the late 1870s for Moussa Dimitri Sursock, a member of the aristocratic Sursock merchant family. Combining Italianate massing with traditional Lebanese design, the palace presents a castle-like exterior with round towers around a central hall more than eleven meters wide, its rooms enriched with Neo-Baroque and Neo-Rococo stucco work. The house passed from Moussa to his son Alfred and then to his granddaughter Yvonne Sursock Cochrane, who lived there until her death in August 2020, and it holds a substantial family archive along with artworks including a painting by Artemisia Gentileschi. The palace, among the largest and best-preserved private residences in Beirut, sustained extensive damage in the 2020 Beirut port explosion. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/