St. Anthony's Church

This guide to St. Anthony's Church in Jaffa opens on the feast of Saint Anthony of Padua, when a procession in Tagalog, Konkani and Arabic fills the streets around this Gothic Revival church. You'll hear how the parish traces back to Arab Christian families gathering here in 1631, long before Franciscan friars raised the current building in 1932 under the British Mandate. Look up at the clock tower and pointed arches, a small European cathedral set down in a Levantine port.