An-Najjariyah

An-Najjariyah
النجارية
Municipality
An-Najjariyah
Location in Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°28′24″N 35°20′55″E / 33.47333°N 35.34861°E / 33.47333; 35.34861
Country Lebanon
GovernorateSouth Governorate
DistrictSidon District
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

An-Najjariyah (Arabic: النجارية) in the Jabal Amil region of Lebanon, is a municipality in the Sidon District of the South Governorate. The Zahrani River reaches the Mediterranean sea at Najjariyah and forms the boundary with the town of Ghazieh to the north. The village extends inland from the mouth of the Zahrani River to the Hajjeh Valley. It borders the municipalities and villages of Al-Ghaziyah, Al-Aaddoussiyah, Al-Marwaniyah, Al-Maamriyah, and Hajjeh. The village administers three hamlets: Msayleh, Kherbet Basal and Brak Ez-Zahrani.

The village's population is predominantly Shiite Muslim, while most Sunni Muslims live in a separate neighborhood known as Hayy al-Arab, meaning "Arab Quarter". Most Sunni Muslims in An-Najjariyah are Lebanese Bedouin Arabs, some of whom live in the Msayleh area of the municipality. The municipality has two mosques, one Sunni and one Shiite, with the Shiite mosque regarded as the main mosque. The municipality's main husayniyya, a building used for Shia religious practice, is the Husayniyya of Ahlul Bayt Alayhuma al-Salam, which is also a stronghold of the Amal movement and the Islamic Risala Scout Association.

The municipality includes the Hajjeh Valley, where a cultural complex belonging to Nabih Berri is located. An-Najjariyah also has a monument in the Zahrani area near Al-Ghaziyah, by the Zahrani River, erected by the Amal movement in memory of Bilal Fahs, one of its members, who carried out a suicide bomb attack against an Israeli convoy there in 1987.