Throughout ages, church architecture belonged to its period in form, character and typology. The variations of this architecture influenced the transformations of the architectural styles in general, in a continuity of relationships that was broken in the 20th century, since church architecture had no more a referential language to rely on.

The church of St Georges at Raachine (traditional village in the high rocky mountains of Keserwan) was commissioned in the 80s in a common intent between the architect and the clients, as a new attempt of revisiting the patrimonial Maronite church architecture, giving it a new look.

The design was conceived as to recapitulate the characteristics of these churches, as massive and vaulted plain rectangles with a dimmed lit interior in favor of piety. The Maronite church typologies were restrained to the apse, to the modest bell tower, and sometimes to a nartex.

The St Georges church design had to create the character of an old patrimonial church in metamorphosis, integrating these characteristics and extrapolating them to a relatively large scale development, since the church had to accommodate 600 people. In the dense mass of stones, reinforced concrete takes roots to extend the inner core of the building, and project the cross signal at the vertical, and a processional gallery at the horizontal. The heavy concrete flat roof sits on corbelled cantilevered stones reinterpreted form the vault typology, inflicting inwards towards the altar by embracing the apse formation, flooding it with zenithal light.

The project was built in concrete and served for 3 decades before it was modified by the local community by additions that negatively affected the original design.