Zouk Mosbeh

{{About-distinguish2|the Lebanese town in Mount Lebanon|the sports club Zouk Mosbeh SC}}

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| name = Zouk Mosbeh

| native_name = ذوق مصبح

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| settlement_type = Municipality

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| subdivision_name1 = Keserwan-Jbeil

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| subdivision_name2 = Keserwan

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File:Commemorative stelae of Nahr el-Kalb and view towards Zouk Mosbeh and Zouk Mikael.jpg

Zouk Mosbeh (Arabic: زوق مصبح) is a town and municipality in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in Lebanon. It is located 12 kilometers north of Beirut. Zouk Mosbeh's average elevation is 170 meters above sea level and its total land area is 453 hectares.{{cite web|title=Zouk Mosbeh|url=http://www.localiban.org/article4493.html|website=Localiban|publisher=Localiban|access-date=2009-07-24|date=2008-01-23}} Its inhabitants are predominantly Maronite Catholics and Christians from other denominations.{{cite web|title=Elections municipales et ikhtiariah au Mont-Liban|url=http://www.localiban.org/IMG/pdf/Elections_municipales_libanaises_2010_-_Mont-Liban.pdf|website=Localiban|publisher=Localiban|access-date=2016-02-12|page=19|format=pdf|date=2010}} There are three schools in the town, one public and two private, which together enrolled a total of 4,633 students in 2005–2006. There were 167 businesses with over five employees operating in Zouk Mosbeh as of 2006.

Zouk Mosbeh is well known for a cave called the King's Cave and is home to the Notre Dame University – Louaize.{{cite book|author=Paul Courbon|title=Atlas of the great caves of the world, p. 131|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Ap_AAAAMAAJ|access-date=17 July 2012|date=June 1989|publisher=Cave Books|isbn=978-0-939748-21-1}} The town is home to the Hall of Fame Museum which contains fifty silicone models of famous celebrities, several of them animated.[http://www.lebanon-tourism.gov.lb/Links/Mus%C3%A9es%20english%20final.pdf Haddad Zeina, Lebanese Ministry of Tourism Museum Brochure, 2006.] It is also home to the Christ the King Convent and the headquarters of the Association for the Protection of the Lebanese Heritage.