The Municipality of Brummana had undertaken the rehabilitation of public cemeteries belonging to all communities such as Maronites, Orthodox, Greek Catholics, Protestants and Druze as well as rehabilitation of historical cemetery belonging to family Abillama and the ancient cemetery in front of Garden Hotel. The goal was to provide a place of dignity and respect for our families and friends who were buried there.

Amongst the many places of attraction that have of late years sprung into existence in connection with the town of Brummana, we may include that of the public cemetery; and in using the term attraction we must not be taken to use it in a light manner, and still, to a certain extent, it is so, to judge by the crowds of visitors and strangers who visit it, some with a curious, and others with a far different motive; but as one of particular interest, everyone gifted in the least with any degree of sentiment, cannot but look upon it as an attraction.

And what more suited to a contemplative mind than to spend a few quiet and retired moments in a walk through, or around, this field of the dead. In reading history, we shall find that, in all ages, and amongst all civilized people, or even including most of the savage races of mankind, from the time we read of the Patriarch Abraham purchasing the cave at the end of the field of Ephron, for the burial place of Sarah, his wife, down to our own time, we almost invariably find a particular care and respect paid, to the resting places where are deposited the remains of the human family.