The Jubail Church is an archaeological site near Jubail, in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province on the Persian Gulf coast. It originally belonged to the Church of the East, also known as the Nestorian Church. Sources disagree on its date, with some placing it in the fourth century and others in the seventh.
Picnickers discovered the church in 1986, and the Saudi Department of Antiquities excavated it in 1987. It contains stucco, which suggests it is contemporary with similar sites at al-Qusur, Sir Bani Yas and Kharg. Two carved crosses stand on either side of the middle inner doorway between the nave and the sanctuary.
As of 2008 the excavation results had not been published. As of 2009 the site was fenced, and tourists and archaeologists were not permitted to examine it.
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