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St Peter’s Church

TIME : 2016/2/19 3:39:30

This rare Crusader church – administered by Koinonia Giovanni Battista, a Catholic community based in Italy – has a roof shaped like an upturned boat, a nod to Peter, a Sea of Galilee fisherman. The interior paintings date from 1902. A replica of the Vatican’s famous statue of St Peter stands in the courtyard near the carved-stone Monument to the Virgin of Czestochowa , erected in 1945 by Polish soldiers billeted here during WWII. Runs a hostel for Catholic pilgrims.