Bayyarat al-Khuri

Bayyarat al-Khuri (Arabic: بيّارة الخوري, lit. the priest’s orchard) was a late Ottoman and British Mandate–period ecclesiastical agricultural estate at Caesarea Maritima on the coast of Palestine/Israel. Established and operated by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the estate occupied the interior of Caesarea's Roman hippodrome and formed part of the Patriarchate's wider strategy of acquiring rural lands near sites of religious and strategic significance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Bayyarat al-Khuri offers a rare, well-documented case of a Jerusalem Patriarchate rural estate in the coastal plain, illustrating how ecclesiastical landholding intersected with technology transfer (diesel pumping, metal piping, Aegean building techniques), transnational migration (Bosnian, Circassian, and Jewish settlements), and geopolitical competition over land in the late Ottoman and Mandate periods.