Al - Manshiyya , Acre Al - Manshiyya ( ) was a Palestinian village with a Muslim orphanage and a mosque known as the mosque of Abu ' Atiyya , which is still standing . The village was close to the shrine of Baha ' u ' llah , who was the founder of the Baha ' i Faith , which is also still standing . History . Five graves were excavated in al - Manshiyya in 1955 – 56 ; the earliest dated from the thirteenth century BC . The people of Al - Manshiyya believed that the village was established in the aftermath of the Crusades , and the original inhabitants were brought to the area from North Africa by the Mamluk s to populate the area . However , the village must have disintegrated subsequently , as it is not mentioned in the 1596 census . A map from 1799 showed the place as a " uninhabited ruin " , while Guérin ( 1880 ) observe that the village is " newly founded " . In the late nineteenth century , the village of Al - Manshiyya was described as being situated on a plain , surrounded by arable land , with houses built of stone and mud . It had a population of about 150 . The economy of the village was based on agriculture . In 1944 / 45 253 dunam s was used for citrus and bananas , 10 , 818 dunams were allotted to cereals , and 619 dunams were irrigated or used for orchards . 1948 , and aftermath . The villagers , who were farmers , lived peacefully and had significant interaction with their Jewish neighbors . But the fighting in Acre , and later , the Deir Yassin massacre , frightened them . The village was first drawn into the 1948 Arab – Israeli War on 6 February 1948 . On that day a number of armed Jews , using automatic weapons and Sten guns , attacked the village . They were driven back by village defenders . Manshiyya was captured by on 14 May 1948 during Operation Ben - Ami . One villager recalled that the dawn attack came from the hill overlooking the village . The villagers , " with bullets whizzing over their heads " , ran towards the east " because all other sides were surrounded by the Jews " . When they returned to remove the dead bodies , they found the village strewn with mines . One former villager recounted that her father returned to Al - Manshiyya about 10 days after the attack and found it had been razed . On the 16 June 1948 , David Ben - Gurion mentioned Manshiyya as one of the villages Israel had destroyed . Two settlements , Shomrat and Bustan HaGalil were established in 1948 on village land , north of the village site . The site is now part of the city of Acre . According to the Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi , the remaining structures on the village land were in 1992 : " The Baha ' i shrine , the mosque , the Islamic school for orphans , and a few houses still stand ; the rest of the village is gone . The shrine is a handsome , domed structure , the front wall and arched entrance of which are framed by prominent stone pillars . The mosque , a stone structure with a dome and vaulted ceilings , has been turned into a private home for a Jewish family . The former Islamic school for orphans is also inhabited . The cemetery is still visible but is not tended ; it contains a tombstone that is inscribed in Turkish and dates to the eighteenth century . The al - Basha water canal , built with stone blocks , still exists , but is not functioning ; the same is also true of an aqueduct . " Andrew Petersen , an archaeologist specializing in Islamic architecture , visited Al - Manshiyya in 1994 . He found the mosque and shrine of Abu Atabi was still standing , though it has been turned into a residential complex since 1948 . The prayer room functioned as a living room . An inscription in two parts was set above the doorway leading to the dome d chamber containing the tomb . The date 1140 H ( 1727 – 28 C . E . ) was still visible in the upper part , while the lower part , written in larger ornamental script might be earlier , possibly dating to Mamluk times . Abu Atabi is said locally to be a Muslim warrior from the time of the Crusades , killed during the siege of Acre .