Oak of Mamre

[citation needed] As written in a footnote from an 1895 publication of Arculf's pilgrimage report, The Oak or Terebinth of Abraham has been shown in two different sites.

seem to point to the ruin of er Râmeh, near which is Beit el Khulil, or Abraham's House, with a fine spring well.

The Christians point to another site, Ballûtet Sebta, where [there] is a fine specimen of Sindian (Quercus Pseudococcifera).

The site has since been a major attraction for Russian pilgrims before the revolution, and is the only functioning Christian shrine in the Hebron region.

[6][7] Following construction work in the 1970s, a wooden ring in the form of a chalice was built around the tree, and its roots began to die.