Christ is in our midst!

Welcome to St. George Greek Orthodox Church of Taybeh in Palestine, the country Constantine the Great named the "Holy Land." We are located in the only all Christian village left in Palestine renamed "Taybeh" from the old Biblical name "Ephraim." The Original Orthodox Church in our village was built in the fourth century by St. Constantine and St. Helen and currently it is in ruins and an archeological site where the local 1300 Christian residents light their candles daily.

The present St. George Orthodox Church was completed in 1931 on the same ground where the seventh century church of St. George was destroyed twice by aging. Our church is under the guidance of His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III, the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Palestine, Syria, beyond the Jordan River, Cana of Galilee & Holy Zion. All of the Orthodox faithful are of Palestinian ethnicity; however, in Jerusalem a few hundred people of Greek ethnicity also have deep roots in Palestine in addition to the two hundred serving in the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre.

Our parish priest, Fr. David (Daoud) Philip Khoury has served the church since l986 with about two hundred fifty families. Fr. Tawfiq Nasser is the retired priest in our village who has more than forty-five years in Christ's service.

This website was specifically set up to bring awareness of Orthodox Christians in the land of Christ's birth and to seek assistance in helping Orthodox Christians stay in this little Christian village preserving their heritage and traditions of two thousand years.