There is a
Roman temple near to the village, opposite the
Wadi Shib'a which is the most southern of the
Temples of Mount Hermon, a group defined by George Taylor as being south of the main road to
Damascus on the west of
Mount Hermon, including the
Wadi al-Taym area. It has been classified as an
Antae temple with an eastern portal that faces
Mount Hermon, aligned
"as if to catch the first beams of the morning sun rising over Hermon." The
temple has a large basement chamber underneath the
cella floors that is thought to have been used for burial. The room is only accessible from the outside of the building. The temple was surveyed in the summer of 1852 by
Edward Robinson who noted several large blocks with one measuring by . He measured the dimensions of the temple to be long by wide with thick walls around high. The
capitals appeared to be of an
Ionic style. ==Demographics==