Ad-Duwayra

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Ad-Duwayra is a small village in southern Syria, in Suwayda Governorate. It is part of Mazraa Subdistrict and had a population of 950 in the 2004 census. The community is mainly Druze, with Christian and Sunni Muslim Bedouin minorities.

Historically, Ad-Duwayra appears in Ottoman tax registers in 1596 as ad-Dur, and in 1838 it was noted as being predominantly Druze and Catholic Christians.

In 2025, during clashes in southern Syria, the St. George Church in Ad-Duwayra was robbed, vandalized, and burned by members of the Defence and Interior Ministries along with armed Bedouin groups.

By 2011, the Melkite Greek Catholic Church reported about 100 believers in the village.

Religious sites in Ad-Duwayra include the St. George Melkite Greek Catholic Church, a mosque, and the Druze shrine Maqam Baha al-Din.