sentences:  In 1883 the PEF's "Survey of Western Palestine" described Bayt Jirja as small, with gardens, and supplied with water from cisterns and a pond.In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, "Beit Jerja" had a population of 397 inhabitants, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 619, still all Muslim, in 115 houses.The villagers kept a shrine, located on the eastern edge and overlooking Wadi al-Abd, and which they believed to be the tomb of "prophet" ("nabi") Jirja.