Immanuel Church

Immanuel Church's guide starts long before the building existed, with a shipload of Maine farmers who landed at Jaffa in 1866 following a self-declared prophet's promise of the Holy Land. You'll hear how disease and despair scattered that failed American colony within two years, and how German Templers later bought the ruined settlement and built far grander than the Americans ever had, culminating in a visit from Kaiser Wilhelm II to bless the cornerstone. The guide follows the congregation through the decades that came after.