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Abu Ghosh is located in the middle of the Kiryat Yearim Ridge Route between Nicopolis and Jerusalem, nine miles ( 83 stadia ) from the capital.

A convent of Minorites with a Gothic church in Abu Ghosh was turned into a stable.

Robinson dated it to the Crusader period and declared it " more perfectly preserved than any other ancient church in Palestine.

" Excavations carried out in 1944 corresponded with Crusader identification of the site as Emmaus.