St. Peter's Church has dominated the skyline of Old Jaffa since 1894, but the story it tells is considerably older.

According to the New Testament, this is where Saint Peter resurrected a woman named Tabitha and where a dream about non-kosher food nudged Christianity away from Judaism. From Jaffa, Peter sailed to Rome and became the first Pope. The church faces west, towards Vatican City, by design.

The emblem above the entrance belongs to the Custody of the Holy Land, founded during the Crusades to safeguard Christian sites across the Middle East. Its Jerusalem Cross, keys and dove encode a theology that spread from this port to San Francisco, whose name traces back to Saint Francis, founder of the Custody.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours unpack the church's iconography, tracing how miracles in Jaffa set Christianity on a course that would reshape the world.