Santa Maria Immacolata e Giovanni Berchmans, Catholic church in Tiburtino district, Rome, Italy.
Santa Maria Immacolata e Giovanni Berchmans is a church in the Tiburtino neighborhood built with exposed brick walls and Romanesque Revival details. The building features a central entrance, a large circular window above it, and a tower added to one side.
The church was built between 1906 and 1909 on the orders of Pope Pius X to serve the growing neighborhood. A bell tower inspired by the Basilica di San Marco in Venice was added in 1929.
The apse fresco shows the Triumph of the Virgin among saints and martyrs, while each lunette along the nave holds two episodes from the life of Mary. Between the windows, niches with feigned relief statues in black-and-white tempera depict Marian allegories and biblical women. Many figures in the transept and central nave were painted from photographs of people killed in the bombing of 19 July 1943.
The church faces Piazza dell'Immacolata in the Tiburtino district, east of Rome's centre. The entrance is on the facade with the mosaic lunette; the 50-metre bell tower, 9.20 metres on each side, rises beside it. The interior is a Latin cross with three naves, so the apse and the organ loft behind the main altar are seen from the central nave.
The bell tower, added in 1929, draws inspiration from St. Mark's Campanile in Venice and contains six bells for traditional religious announcements.
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