[1][2][3] The village is situated in a gap in a ridge overlooking the Wadi Al-Taym between the Merj Shemiseh and is predominantly occupied by Druze.

[6] George Taylor noted that the doorway of the temple was at least thirty degrees offset from the peak.

The east entrance featured 3 feet (0.91 m) thick columns that possibly formed a portico.

[5] The site was suggested to have been used by the Druze as a shrine to a prophet called Safa, who was descended from Jacob and whose people lived towards Hebron and Jerusalem.

Little record of the prophet Safa remains, although it was said that "The honourable body is there, and the spirit is always to be found there.