The Monastery and Church of Saint George in Al-Khader (Arabic: دير وكنيسة القديس جاورجيوس)[1] is an Eastern Orthodox Christian religious site in the Palestinian town of al-Khader, near Beit Jala and Bethlehem, in the central West Bank of the State of Palestine.

[2] According to local tradition, Saint George was imprisoned in the town of al-Khader, where the current church stands.

[3] In the thirteenth century, an anonymous Greek text noted: ‘After Bait Jala, there is to be seen the church of the Great George; and in it is kept the chain that was laid on his back’.

[4] Around 1421/1422 the Church of St. George was mentioned by Western traveler John Poloner as situated on a hill near Bethlehem.

"[7] Around 1740, Richard Pococke still noted it as a Greek convent,[8] but in 1838, when Edward Robinson passed, the former church had become a mosque.