The "Khan" (Inn) was built during the Mamluk era as part of a system of protected wayside Inns, and also as a fortress in and of itself that could protect the bridges crossing the Jordan and its trade caravans. In the building many clay pots in assorted styles were found as well as a beautiful memorial slab in commemoration of an important man of Turkish descent that drowned in the Jordan River in 1308. The Khan has been described by many travelers.

In 1799, Napolean's engineer, Zekotan, drew from atop the western hills, a map of the Jordan Valley and the Sea of Galilee without even seeing them, and he called the Khan the "Caravanserail", meaning a government trade route building. This is the name, while misused, is what many travelers called it.

Description - square, 60 x 60 meters, two floors, with fortified towers and a large paved courtyard with a pool in the center, water for the traders' animals.

The gate faces east and is built with white stone, differentiating it from the many basalt stones nearby. From traders' descriptions, we gather that the Khan was destroyed in the early 19th century. All the travelers after 1840 describe the Khan as destroyed by an earthquake (among them also by Molyneux in 1848 and by Lynch in 1849, both early explorers of the Jordan River and Dead Sea). We know that the earthquake of 1837 also heavily destroyed Safed and Tiberias. The destruction of the Khan, together with many years of sediment washed onto the area from the surrounding hills, left it covered over for many years. According to researchers from the second half of the 19th century, Victor Gran and Tristam, as well as official Turkish documents, the place was empty of residents. But since the beginning of the 20th century, structures began to be built once more, on top of the remnants of the surrounding walls of the Khan.

The Khan also served the members of old Kibbutz Gesher as a housing unit and as a hideout for weapons.