Johfiyeh (Arabic: جُحفية) also spelled Johfiyah, Juhfiyah or Juhfiyeh, is a historical village in northern Jordan, located 80 kilometers north of the capital Amman and about 7.5 km southwest of the city Irbid.
The decline of the hills gradually hand Johfiyeh in a horizontal line that stretches to less than one kilometer to Hauran plains, which lies at about 400 meters above sea level.
Both the western and southern slopes of the hills suffer from soil erosion as a result of rainfall, which over time led to the loss of vegetation in these areas except for some shrubs and wild herbs found standing between the cracks in the rocks.
This is clear from the monuments like the Byzantine church, which dates back to the sixth century AD, besides the distinctive floor mosaic color and the remnants of the lime.
This not mentioning the Byzantine cemetery that extends from the western site of the ancient church until "Karm-At'toot" berries garden to the south of the current Uthman ibn Affan mosque.
Johfiyeh began to lose its importance after transferring center of the Islamic caliphate to Baghdad, as most towns in the Syria region (Sham).
In 1596 it appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named as Juhfiyya, situated in the nahiya (subdistrict) of Bani al-Asar, part of the Sanjak of Hawran.
The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products; including wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards/fruit trees, goats and bee-hives.