Dom José Gaspar square, Public square in República District, São Paulo, Brazil

Dom José Gaspar square is a public plaza in central São Paulo that surrounds the Mario de Andrade Municipal Library, positioned between São Luís Avenue and Consolação Street. The space offers green areas and seating for visitors within this densely populated downtown district.

The square was named in 1949 to honor Dom José Gaspar d'Afonseca e Silva, who became São Paulo's youngest archbishop at age 38. This naming reflected recognition of his role in the city's religious and cultural development.

The square's name, given in 1949, honors Dom José Gaspar d'Afonseca e Silva, São Paulo's second archbishop and the youngest in Brazil at 38; he died in a 1943 plane crash that also killed journalist Cásper Líbero. From 1949 the Paribar bar-restaurant drew politicians, journalists and poets, including Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque and Che Guevara in 1961.

The square sits on a raised, flat terrace above the Anhangabaú valley, between São Luís Avenue and Consolação Street, with Bráulio Gomes and Marconi streets on the other sides. Wide sidewalks carry pedestrians, street vendors and a newsstand. The library is fenced off, so its entrances from the square and São Luís Avenue are blocked; reach it from the surrounding streets.

In August 1977, from noon to 2 pm, street vendors, office boys, students and shoeshine boys turned the square into a soccer pitch. When police took the ball, prosecutor Hélio Bicudo helped them get it back, and a boy's letter to the sports secretary led to painted field markings and goalposts.