page_title: Khirbet Beit Zakariyyah
section_title: Ottoman era
hierarchical_section_title: Khirbet Beit Zakariyyah / History / Ottoman era
caption_attribution_description: English: Khirbet Beit Zakariyyah, Palestine
context_page_description: Khirbet Beit Zakariyyah is a small Palestinian village in the West Bank. It is located in between the larger Israeli settlements of Alon Shevut and Rosh Tzurim in the Gush Etzion region. Administratively, it is associated with Artas, Bethlehem.
context_section_description: In  the  Ottoman census of 1538-1539,   Bayt Dhakariyya  was  located  in the nahiya of Halil, while in 1557,  it was noted that the village  revenues went to an Imperial  imaret in Jerusalem.
  In 1852,  Edward Robinson  noted Beit Sakarieh “on an almost isolated promontory or  Tell, jutting out northwest between two deep valleys; and connected with the high ground south by a low neck between the heads of those two valleys."
  An  Ottoman list from about 1870 notes a Muslim  wali, dedicated to a Sheikh Zakarja, located under a large tree. Several cisterns were also noted, and that the old  Roman road to Jerusalem passed by.
  The PEF's Survey of Western Palestine visited in 1873 and noted:  "From the main Roman road on the south a path leads to this ruin, situate on the brow, overlooking deep valleys on the east and north. Beside the path is a square foundation about 50 feet side, of roughly-dressed stones. The remains on the hill-brow are those of a large modern village, with more ancient foundations.  One wall consists of stones 4 1/2 feet long, 2 feet high, roughly dressed. There is also a mosque, with a portico  on the west, sunk below the surface. On the north side of this portico a pillar is placed with a capital of basket-work (see illustration), like the eighth century Byzantine capitals. The shaft is 2 feet diameter. The mosque door was shut ; perhaps it may represent the site of the church which once stood at this place. [..] Drafted stones with a rough boss were also found, and another capital, apparently Byzantine. To the west of the site are rock-cut tombs, now blocked. A tree grows over the Mukam, or mosque."
caption: A Byzantine capital, noted in 1873[13]
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