The Russian Monastery is located some 2 km south east of old Jaffa and it took me a good 1 hour to locate the site. Walking through the hot and humid Tel Aviv climate was really a tiresome experience. Unfortunately, the monastery was closed when I reached there and the opening time was from 4pm-6pm on Friday. Since there is no public transport in evening hours for Sabbath, I skipped the venue. The present monastery was built in 1860 dedicated to St Peter with accommodation for pilgrims. Under the courtyard of the monastery is an underground chamber with numerous chambers for burials from a Jewish cemetery of the first-fourth centuries A.D. Christian tradition assumes one of them to be the tomb of Tabitha, whom Peter raised from the dead (Acts 9:36-42).
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