Be'er Ora is located in the Negev, in the southern Arava Valley, about twenty kilometers north of Eilat-Aila. This rectangular prayer area measures 6.4 X 5.7 meters, consisting of no more than a marking on the ground with lines of stones. The enclosure has in it two round niches, one facing south-east and the other north-east (Rothenberg 1972:221-22). Further excavations at this site led to the conclusion that this is a unique form of an Early Islamic open-air mosque (Sahron, Avner, and Nahlieli 1996), in which the direction of the mihrab was converted from the eastern side to the southern side of the structure, providing rare evidence for the changing of direction of prayer in Early Islamic religious practices (Sharon 1988:230-33; Sharon, Avner, and Nahlieli 1996:108-9).

In the photo below you can see the top niche (which points north towards Petra) and the bottom niche which points south to Mecca. Since this is an old open-air mosque, it is difficult to date, and also to calculate the exact qibla direction. What is unique about this site, is that it contains two niches.