Located at the north-west part of the village of Abu Ghosh. The church is located at the summit of Tel Kiryat Ye’arim. The site is identified with the biblical Kiryat Ye’arim, where the Ark of Covenant was brought after it was captured back from the Philistines. The biblical story was the impetus to constructing a church at this site. A church was first constructed at this site during the Byzantine period, which was later on destroyed in 614 during the Persian conquest of the region. The church was established in 1924 together with a women monastery on the remains of the Byzantine period church. Since the 1980s music festivals have been held occasionally at the church.