It is located a short distance from Ein Karem, the traditional birthplace of Saint John the Baptist, and south of Jerusalem.

The monastery commemorates the "wilderness" in which St. John the Baptist lived as an orphaned child and throughout the years which prepared him for public ministry.

[1][2]The monastery has a church and is built next to the grotto in which St John is said to have lived, which now functions as a chapel.

[1] The monastery also contains the spring known in Arabic as ‘Ain el-Habis, 'spring of the hermit', and the tomb of Elizabeth, St John's mother.

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