 In the Byzantine period, a church was constructed there and it shows signs of having been reused as a "dar", or manor house, during the Early Islamic period.Hellenistic Sinnabris became known as "al-Sinnabra" or "Sinn en-Nabra" in Arabic.An Arab Islamic palatial complex or "qasr" in al-Sinnabra, known by the same name, served as a winter resort to Mu'awiya, Marwan I, and other caliphs in Umayyad-era Palestine (c. 650-704 CE).