Immanuel Church (Tel Aviv-Yafo)

Why go

Today it serves a Lutheran congregation of the Norwegian Church Ministry to Israel. The church building dates back to 1904 and its first Protestant congregation to 1858. The church building is located on Rechov Beer-Hofmann #15. The first congregation formed a parish in 1889 and became a fully-fledged member of the Evangelical State Church of Prussia's older Provinces in 1906.

What to look for

• Today it serves a Lutheran congregation of the Norwegian Church Ministry to Israel.
• The church building dates back to 1904 and its first Protestant congregation to 1858.

The full story

Immanuel Church is a Protestant church in the American or German Colony in Jaffa, a locality of Tel Aviv-Yafo in Israel. Today it serves a Lutheran congregation of the Norwegian Church Ministry to Israel. The church building dates back to 1904 and its first Protestant congregation to 1858. The church building is located on Rechov Beer-Hofmann #15. The first congregation formed a parish in 1889 and became a fully-fledged member of the Evangelical State Church of Prussia's older Provinces in 1906. Church building After in 1899 the first construction works of a combined Evangelical church, community centre and school ended, with the cornerstone having been laid in November 1898. The walls are built from two kinds of natural stone, a yellowish-grey type of sandstone exploited close to Jaffa and a limestone, the so-called Meliki, from the mountains at Bir Nabala.

Useful to know

• Check current interior access before setting out, especially around holidays, services or special events.
• Keep the visit in the same geographic cluster as nearby stops; cross-city transfers can take longer than the map suggests.

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