Kafr Buhum - History

History

Housing in the town likely had started with the movement of people from the its surrounding caves and the traces over there show that. Then people came to the town from different regions.

The town is too ancient and perhaps existed since two thousands years. There is a lot of spiritual, moral important persons emerged in the town history since long time and headed them Gregorios bin Fadil, he is the first Aleppo bishop of the Melkite Greek Church, and he remained at the Episcopal from 1540 to 1582, with attempts in the Minstrelsy and researches in theology and Book of Proverbs.

This town contains many ancient, historical, and archaeological churches, like Saint George Church which has an ancient building, 18th and 19th century icons mostly by painter Hanna Saliba, church manuscripts belonging to the 17th and 18th centuries, and some old church silver tools.

There is also the Church of Saint Mary, which dates back more than 2,000 years, as an Ancient Roman temple before the spread of Christianity.

There is also Haunt St. John the Baptist, and Haunt Forty Martyrs of Sebaste that the date of its buildings is unknown yet. There is also St. Elias that is newly built about forty years ago. The town contains many caves and archaeological sites.

There is another opinion about the history of the town that the inhabitants of the town met after they had scattered in the ruins in Kafr buhum then those areas transplanted for the benefit of all the people of the town. Then some people came to assist native people with their labour, those workers became residents of the town after they were scattered in many debris and villages such as: Kafr aldoss, Kafr Hanin, Elteara, Alamisha, Abo sensal, Abu Aram, Bo sloma, Altailbea, Aladsat, Alashr, Ancka, briRabat, Alskor, Albaka, Kaaba, Abu Hawara, Albahis, Wadi Haddad, Wadi Aljdi, Wadi Aldiab, Vion Syscon, Kafr-trodden, Altawela, Alareda, Alslykha, Almkens.