The Center holds now the digital images of the manuscripts’ collection of Balamand, and twenty-eight other collections from monasteries, parishes and private collectors, which exceed two thousand manuscripts and sums up of more than five million digital images.

In spring of 2003, a new project between the Balamand Patriarchal Monastery and the St John University of Minnesota (U.S.A) started the digitalization project of all the manuscripts

It restores and preserves the Balamand Patriarchal Monastery treasures of manuscripts, which the monks cared for them in scribing and decorating through the centuries,The “Centre” is still..