Roman temple of Bziza, Roman temple in Bziza, Lebanon

The Roman temple of Bziza is an ancient sanctuary in Bziza, Lebanon, with a rectangular stone base and a portico at the front. The portico displays four columns in the Ionic style, three carved from single stone blocks and one rebuilt in later years.

This building arose in the first century after Christ as a place of worship for a Canaanite deity. When Christianity became the state religion in the Byzantine Empire, people converted the structure into a church.

The name Bziza is a corruption of Beth Azizo, meaning the house or temple of Azizos, the morning star god identified with Ares by Emperor Julian. The temple served as an aedes, the dwelling place of the deity. After its conversion to a church, it was known as Our Lady of the Pillars, and Christian devotion continued in one of its niches into the nineteenth century.

The ruin stands in a small public garden with grass and benches, about 350 meters (1,150 feet) south of the town center. The visit is freely accessible during daylight hours and usually takes no longer than half an hour.

The temple appears on three Lebanese postage stamps: 35 piastres in 1971, 200 piastres in 1985, and again in 2002. In 1965 archaeologist Haroutune Kalayan excavated the podium and found half of the front pediment's plan etched on one of the temple walls.