The area just north of the village was a garden planted by Sulayman Pasha, who was the ruler of Acre in the early 19th century, named Arabic: قصر بهجي, Qasr Bahjī, mansion of delight; today this is known as the shrine of Bahá'u'lláh, who was the founder of the Baháʼí Faith.

Some paces further is a mosque, remarkable on account of its burying-ground, in which was interred a prodigious number of infidels, who perished under the walls of Acre.

"[8] A map from 1799 showed the place as an "uninhabited ruin",[9] while Guérin, who visited in 1875, observed that the village is "newly founded".

[10] In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described the village of Al-Manshiyya as being situated on a plain, surrounded by arable land, with houses built of stone and adobe.

On that day a number of armed Jews, using automatic weapons and Sten guns, attacked the village.

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 al-Basha water canal, built with stone blocks, still exists, but is not functioning; the same is also true of an aqueduct.

Abu Atabi is said locally to be a Muslim warrior from the time of the Crusades, killed during the siege of Acre.