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Religions of Jifna


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The remains of the Byzantine-era church in Jifna testifies to the existence of a Christian community prior to the Muslim conquest. It continued to exist during the Middle Ages and the village is still inhabited mainly by Christians. The names of Christian inhabitants from Jifna appeared in a 10th century inscription on a stone above the gate of St. George's Monastery in the Wadi Qelt.

Ottoman tax records from the late 16th century reveal that Jifna had a Christian population at the time also. An informal survey in 1927 found 550 inhabitants, of whom 325 were Catholics and the remainder reportedly "Christians of

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