Martyrs’ Monument, Beirut, Bronze memorial in Martyrs' Square, Lebanon

Martyrs' Monument is a four-metre-high statue by Italian sculptor Marino Mazzacurati, inaugurated in 1960 and cast at the Ahmad & Saeddine Abbas Foundry in Beirut's Saifi district. It stands in Martyrs' Square, the site of the 1916 hangings it commemorates.

The monument was inaugurated in 1960, replacing an earlier memorial from 1930, to commemorate people executed in 1916. Italian sculptor Marino Mazzacurati created the bronze figures as a lasting tribute to these historical events.

The square takes its name from the nationalists hanged there on May 6, 1916, by order of Ottoman governor Djemal Pasha. The 1930 monument by Youssef Hoyek showed two women, one Muslim and one Christian, holding hands over an urn of ashes, with a stylized shahada and a small cross carved on their chests.

The monument sits at a central crossroads in Beirut and is easy to reach on foot or by public transportation. Visitors should note that the square can be very crowded during major events and demonstrations.

The 1960 statue by Marino Mazzacurati was cast at the Ahmad & Saeddine Abbas foundry in the Saifi district. When it was restored in 1996 by the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, the restorers deliberately kept the marks of the 1975-1990 civil war damage rather than repairing them.