Bait Safafa

Also known as Bethafava, Bethsaphace

A massive twelfth-century tower once stood beside the old Jerusalem road at Beit Safafa, today a neighbourhood in southern Jerusalem. Its barrel-vaulted basement, cistern, internal stair, and upper floors housed a small Frankish garrison whose job was to keep the road to the capital safe. Only fragmentary remains survive.

Coordinates: 31.7484°, 35.2087°

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