Immanuel Church (Tel Aviv-Yafo)

כנסיית עמנואל Immanuel Church Immanuelkirche Immanuelkirken
The northern façade towards Rechov Beer-Hofmann רחוב בר-הופמן
Basic information
Location	American–German Colony, a neighbourhood in Tel Aviv
Geographic coordinates	32°03′24″N 34°45′45″E / 32.056627°N 34.762588°E / 32.056627; 34.762588Coordinates: 32°03′24″N 34°45′45″E / 32.056627°N 34.762588°E / 32.056627; 34.762588
Affiliation	Lutheran Protestant since 1955, until 1940 united Protestant
Rite	Services on Saturdays in Hebrew/English at 11am. Sundays in English at 10am
District	formerly: Provostry of Jerusalem (1898–1940)
Province	Norwegian Church Ministry to Israel since 1955 Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem (1940–47) Foreign Dept. of the Church of the old-Prussian Union (1906–40)
Country	Israel
Leadership	Pastor Christian Rasmussen
Website	[2] (in English)
Architectural description
Architect(s)	Paul Ferdinand Groth
Architectural style	Neo-Gothic style
Completed	1904
Materials	sandstone and limestone

Immanuel Church (Hebrew: כנסיית עמנואל‎‎, Knesiyat Immanu'el; German: Immanuelkirche; Norwegian: Immanuelkirken) is a Protestant church in the American–German Colony in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was built in 1904. In 1955, the Lutheran World Federation transferred control of the church to the Norwegian Church Ministry to Israel ().

George Adams and Abraham McKenzie, colonists from Maine arrived in Jaffa on 22 September 1866. They founded the American Colony in Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality. They erected their wooden houses from prefabricated segments they had brought with them. Many settlers contracted cholera, and about a third of them died. Most returned to America. In 1869, newly arriving settlers from the Kingdom of Württemberg led by Georg David Hardegg () (1812–1879) and Christoph Hoffmann, members of the Temple Society, replaced them.

However, in June 1874 the Temple denomination underwent a schism. Temple leader Hardegg and about a third of the Templers seceded from the Temple Society, after personal and substantial quarrels with Christoph Hoffmann. In 1878 Hardegg and most of the schismatics founded the Temple Association (Tempelverein), but after Hardegg's death in the following year the cohesion of its adherents faded.

In 1885 Pastor Carl Schlicht of the Jerusalem Evangelical congregation () started to proselytise among the schismatics succeeded in forming Evangelical congregations. In 1889 former Templers, Protestant German and Swiss expatriates, and domestic and foreign proselytes established the Evangelical congregation of Jaffa. Johann Georg Kappus sen. (1826–1905) became the first chairman of the congregation, seconded and later followed by his son Johann Georg Kappus jun. (1855–1928).