Pseudo Joshua the Stylite reports that "in Beirut, on the day when Acre [Akko] was destroyed, only the synagogue of the Jews collapsed," while later source Pseudo-Dionysius of Tell-Mahre similarly states that "the synagogue of the Jews was utterly collapsed and destroyed," preserving a tradition of localized damage in Beirut associated with a wider destructive event affecting Acre [Akko].

These accounts reflect a common literary motif in Late Antique and early medieval sources in which the destruction of a rival religious community’s structure is emphasized. Such claims often carry a theological message that the building fell due to sin, believed to have provoked the earthquake, and therefore introduce an element of bias that adds uncertainty to the historical reliability of the reported damage.