Public Places

Since its inauguration in 1953, the municipal garden has been quickly transformed in a leisure and relaxing area for the inhabitants of the village. 

Dotted with benches, fair-ground attractions for kids and with green quarters, the walker finds peace in the shadow of its trees. 

Many actvities take place in this garden, especially during Bickfaya's annual festival which transforms it in a huge attraction on park for kids or in a concert spot.

History
During year 2001, the Ministry of Culture, in association with Municipalities and the Intergovernmental Agency of the Francophony (AIF) succeeded in implanting several centers for reading and cultural activities (CLAC) in the rural environment, of which the one at Bickfaya inaugurated in November 2001. The peculiarity of the Snap of Bickfaya and the reason of its success, holds in the fact that he(it) gathers(combines) the reading in cultural activities diversified with a particular attention on the corner(place) youth. More than 7.500 books and diverse works are put in the availability of the visitors and the readers.
Objective:
The objective of the CLAC consists in presenting to the largest number, aoutfit diversified panoply of books that cover a wide panel of subjects: youth, history, general knowledge, geography …

The missions:
Offer a free access to information and to culture.Encourage children to read from their youngest age.
Support at the same time the auto training as well as the conventional education on all levels.
Supply to every person the means to evolve in a creative way.
Stimulate the imagination and the creativity of the children and the young people.
Develop the sense of the cultural heritage, the taste for the arts, the realizations and the scientific innovations.
Insure the access to the various forms of cultural expression of performing arts.
Develop the inter-cultural dialogue and promote the cultural diversity.

Services:
A fully equipped reading room (shelves, tables, chairs, corner dedicated to young people, luminosity, air conditioning).
A collection of more than 7500 books for young people and for adults in all the disciplines and in several languages as well as magazines, periodic newspapers, educational games, audiovisual and computer equipments.
Audiovisual equipments: LCD projector, DVD, radio …
An animation room for the cultural and artistic activities: conferences, exhibitions, music, theater.

Subscription:
Subscription to CLAC, as well as to most of the animations is free of charge. A maximum of 2 documents can be borrowed by each subscriber and this on a period of 14 days (2 weeks).

Opening hours:
From Monday to Friday from 3:00 pm till 6:00 pm
On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 10:00 am till 1:00 pm 
(Other mornings are reserved for schools’ reception and paperwork)

 Diverse cultural Activities:
Movie club
Author's receptions (foreigners and Lebanese)
Exhibitions (photos, books, with theme,…)
Entertainment shows (marionettes, foreigner storytellers, music, singings,…)
Conferences.

The Municipality of Bikfaya was built in 1984 as a multi-purpose hall and was built to be a cultural center for the region. This name was not called in vain, but is a translation of the Syriac name "Beit Kiva".
Since the Rock House has the best audiovisual equipment at the time, and since great names in the field of literature, music and art have visited it, it has attracted crowds of all ages who were eager to attend various cultural events, plays, concerts and exhibitions.
The rock house remained the meeting place for many years until 1990, when the occupation forces invaded Bikfaya and destroyed this great cultural edifice and looted it.

The current municipal council has modernized and developed the House of Rock and thus restored its pioneering cultural role in the region

Since the municipality of Bickfaya - Mhaydsse has always considered sports to be one of the most important social activities and a means to educate the generations and to acquire self development, it has always paid particular attention to sports and to the development of the young generations skills. Thus, the municipality built the municipal stadium thanks to the financial support of the Lebanese businessman Carlos Slim.
The stadium has been designed according to international standards and is equipped to host the most important sports tournaments. The stadium includes basketball and football fields that can receive up to 1500 people, sports halls as well as car parks. The management of this stadium was entrusted to the Amal Sports Club which was founded in 1948 and won the Lebanese Basketball Championship in 1960. It is now chaired by Karim Nasrallah.
The municipal council and the Amal sports club aim together to ensure the prosperity of this sports building.