Acre district · depopulated 1948 · 2 min read
Al-Manshiyya (Acre)
المَنْشِيَّة
Al-Manshiyya stood on the plain northeast of Acre, beside the al-Basha canal, with 810 Arab residents recorded in 1944/45, a mosque, an Islamic orphanage and the Shrine of Baha' Allah. Indirect evidence places its occupation at the opening of Operation Ben-Ami on 14 May 1948; by 16 June its destruction was already under way. Khalidi's 1992 survey recorded the shrine, mosque, orphanage, cemetery, canal and a few houses within Acre's expansion.
See Al-Manshiyya (Acre) on the Atlas32.9351°N · 35.0905°EAl-Manshiyya lay on a sandstone plateau northeast of Acre, north of the al-Na’amin River. Half a kilometre to the west ran the stone-built al-Basha canal, carrying water from the springs of al-Kabri into the city. The sources even preserve a small geographical discrepancy: PalQuest’s key-facts table places the village two kilometres from Acre, while its narrative says three. Both locate it on Acre’s immediate plain and linked by a short road to the coastal highway. The Atlas retains Wikidata’s coordinate, which lies about 0.39 kilometres north of the closely aligned coordinates published by PalQuest, Palestine Remembered and Zochrot; the identity and Acre subdistrict match across the records.
The village had been inhabited again by the late nineteenth century, when its stone and mud houses stood among arable land. At the beginning of the twentieth century its square plan held houses of stone, cement and mud, a mosque, an Islamic school for orphans, and the Shrine of Baha’ Allah. The 1931 census counted 460 people in 132 houses. The 1944/45 table records 810 Arabs and 270 Jews across the statistical unit. Agriculture and animal husbandry sustained the village. Of the Arab-held land recorded in 1944/45, 10,818 dunums were planted in cereals, 619 were irrigated or in orchards, and 253 carried citrus and bananas.
The Palestinian daily Filastin reported an armed attack on the village on 6 February 1948 that was driven back; the report named no casualties. PalQuest says the later evidence is indirect but places the occupation at the beginning of Operation Ben-Ami on 14 May. By 16 June, Ben-Gurion was reporting that demolition was already under way.
Shamrat and Bustan ha-Galil were established in 1948 on village lands north of the site, which has since been absorbed into Acre. Khalidi’s 1992 site survey recorded the Baha’i shrine, the mosque, the orphanage and a few houses. It described the mosque as converted into a private house, the former school as inhabited, the cemetery as visible but untended, and the al-Basha canal and an aqueduct as surviving without carrying water. Those remains leave the Palestinian village legible within Acre rather than reducing it to an empty archaeological layer.
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3- palquest.org(opens in a new tab)https://www.palquest.org/en/node/16839
- palestineremembered.com — al Manshiyya(opens in a new tab)https://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/al-Manshiyya/
- zochrot.org — en(opens in a new tab)https://www.zochrot.org/villages/village_details/49268/en
Connected in the archive
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named in this record — 2 records
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- Acreعكا
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Al-Manshiyya lay on a sandstone plateau northeast of Acre, north of the al-Na'amin River.
- Al-Kabriالكابري
Evidence — Inferred from the text — read the evidence: Half a kilometre to the west ran the stone-built al-Basha canal, carrying water from the springs of al-Kabri into the city.
in the same district — 20 records
Filed near each other — the same Mandate district, or the same uncommon subject tags.
- Al-Bassaالبصة
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Both recorded in the Acre district.
- Al-Birwaالبروة
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Both recorded in the Acre district.
- Al-Damunالدامون
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Both recorded in the Acre district.
- Al-Ghabisiyyaالغابسية
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Both recorded in the Acre district.
- Al-Mansuraالمنصورة
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Both recorded in the Acre district.
- Al-Nabi Rubinالنبي روبين
Evidence — From a recorded field in this archive: Both recorded in the Acre district.
- and 14 more
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- Chicago
“Al-Manshiyya (Acre).” Village Memory, FALASTEEN.AI. Accessed 22 August 2026. https://falasteen.ai/memory/al-manshiyya-acre.- MLA
“Al-Manshiyya (Acre).” Village Memory, FALASTEEN.AI, 2026, https://falasteen.ai/memory/al-manshiyya-acre. Accessed 22 August 2026.- BibTeX
@misc{falasteen-al-manshiyya-acre, title = {Al-Manshiyya (Acre)}, howpublished = {\url{https://falasteen.ai/memory/al-manshiyya-acre}}, organization = {FALASTEEN.AI — A Living Archive for Palestine}, year = {2026}, note = {Accessed 2026-08-22} }