hermitage, the monastery, and the adjoining forest in order to make it his retreat and final resting place. He died on April 10, 1931. On August 22, 1931, Gibran's body reached Bsharri. Mariana, his sister, bought the monastery and the adjoining lands and thus fulfilled a part of her brother's will: to make of the hermitage his burial place.

Founded in 1935, the Gibran Museum possesses 440 original paintings and drawings of Gibran and his tomb. It also includes his furniture and belongings from his studio when he lived in New York City