Hinah (Arabic: حينة) is a Syrian village in the Qatana District of the Rif Dimashq Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Hinah had a population of 1,524 in the 2004 census.. Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). Rif Dimashq Governorate. The inhabitants of Hinah are predominantly Druze and Christians.
History The presence of Druze around Mount Hermon is documented since the founding of the Druze religion in the beginning of the 11th century.Roy Marom, “Sukayk and al-Summāqah: Mamluk Rural Geography in the Northern Jawlān/Golan Heights in the Light of Qāytbāy’s Endowment Deeds,” in Kate Raphael and Mustafa Abbasi (ed.s), The Golan in the Mamluk and Ottoman Periods: an Archaeological and Historical Study: Excavations at Naʿarān and Farj, In Honour of Moshe Hartal, Yigal Ben Ephraim and Shuqri ‘Arraf, Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion Volume xiv (2024): 67
Historical geographer Samuel Klein has pointed out that in the immediate environs of Heeneh and Rimah there is a large reservoir (birket) containing more than of water for irrigation of crops.*
In 1838, Eli Smith noted Hinah's population as Druze and Antiochian Greek Christians.Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, 2nd appendix, p. 139
The village was placed under Israeli control following the Israeli intervention in Syria in December 2024.
Religious buildings Hinah has two churches: St. Elias of the Greek Orthodox Church St. Elias of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church
See also Druze in Syria Christianity in Syria
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