page_title: Bayt Nuba
section_title: Ottoman era
hierarchical_section_title: Bayt Nuba / History / Ottoman era
caption_attribution_description: English: artifact found in Beit Nuba
context_page_description: Bayt Nuba was a Palestinian Arab village, located halfway between Jerusalem and al-Ramla. Historically identified with the biblical city of Nob mentioned in the Book of Samuel, that association has been eschewed in modern times. The village is mentioned in extrabiblical sources including the writings of 5th-century Roman geographers, 12th-century Crusaders and a Jewish traveller, a 13th-century Syrian geographer, a 15th-century Arab historian, and Western travellers in the 19th century. Depopulated by Israeli forces during the 1967 war, it was subsequently leveled by military engineers using controlled explosions, and the Israeli settlement of Mevo Horon was established on its lands in 1970.
context_section_description: The waqf custodian of the mosque in Bayt Nuba (and 'Allar) in 1810 was appointed by the Ottoman imperial authorities, and hailed from the Jerusalem family of notables, the Dajanis.
  Edward Robinson and Eli Smith  visited Beit Nubah in 1838 and 1852, and identified it as the Nobe mentioned by Jerome and considered by some of their contemporaries to be Bethannaba. Victor Guérin  noted in 1863 the presence of a small mosque in the village named Djama Sidi Ahmed et-Tarfinù. At his time, Beit-Nouba was made up of about 400 inhabitants whose homes were constructed on a hill between two valleys. In large, modern buildings in the village could be seen traces of more ancient building materials incorporated therein and there are some ancient cisterns as well.
  Socin found from an official Ottoman village list from about 1870  that  Bet Nuba  had   23 houses and a population of  97, though the population count included  men, only. Hartmann found that  Bet Nuba had 20  houses.
  In 1873, Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau discovered  the  remains of a large medieval church in the village.  In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described  Bayt Nuba  as a "good-sized village on flat ground".
  In 1896 the population of  Bet Nuba was estimated to be about 723 persons.
caption: Part of medieval church discovered by Clermont-Ganneau, and destroyed in 1967.[11]
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