Sahnaya

Sahnaya (Arabic: صحنايا, also spelled Sihnaya or Sehnaya) is a town in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located southwest of Damascus in the western Ghouta.

Nearby localities include Ashrafiyat Sahnaya, Darayya, Muadamiyat al-Sham, Jdeidat Artouz, Khan Danun and Al-Kiswah.

[3] In 1838, Eli Smith noted Sahnaya as being located in the Wady el-'Ajam, and being populated with Druze and "Greek" Christians.

Until the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, Sahnaya was home to the main campus of the Little Village private school.

Recently, due to the Syrian civil war, Sahnaya has hosted tens of thousands of the inhabitants of neighbouring Darayya and Al-Sabinah, who are mainly Sunni Muslims.