Hittin Village mosque. The mosque is the only complete structure that remained from the Arab village, which was probably the Canaanite city of Ziddim.
Near the spring are ruins of an Arab village of Hittin. The village, destroyed in 1948, was built on top of the ruins of earlier period villages. According to scholars, it was known as the Canaanite city of Ziddim (Joshua 19: 32, 35): “The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali…And the fenced cities are Ziddim”. It was later renamed Kefar Hittim (“village of grain”) and in the Roman period was known as a Jewish village (Kefar Hittaya). The settlement was probably established by the Hasmoneans. The ruins cover an area of 25 dunams, scattered along the stream originating from the Hittin spring. The mosque is the only complete structure that remained from the Arab village. The IAA conducted historic preservation works and the structure and its courtyard are clean and tidy. The minaret tower has scars of bullet hits near the window, perhaps the remains of the 1948 Independence war. Laurence Oliphant visited the site in 1884 and noted that the mosque was built over the ruins of a Byzantine church. According to the surveys, it is believed that the ruins were of the Synagogue.
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Location: Hittin Village mosque. Israel
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