Cappella Sacrario ai Caduti di Kindu, Memorial chapel near Military Airport, Pisa, Italy.

The Cappella Sacrario ai Caduti di Kindu is a memorial building in the southern zone of Pisa constructed with a trapezoidal layout and four metal pillars. The interior features large windows, a bell tower made of exposed concrete, and black marble flooring with grooved furnishings that make the space feel bright and structured.

In November 1961 thirteen Italian airmen were killed at Kindu, in Congo, during a humanitarian mission. The Ministry of Defence, funded by a Rai subscription, chose a site by the Pisa military airport, from where the fleet had departed. Giovanni Michelucci was commissioned at the end of 1961; his ambitious projects were cut back for lack of money, and the iron structures went up between August and September 1962. The chapel was finished in spring 1963, and in 1989 it became a military parish.

The name recalls Kindu, in Congo, where thirteen Italian airmen were killed in November 1961. Since 1989 the chapel has been a military parish, so religious services there were expanded and furnishings increased. The three bells, cast in 1963 by the Magni foundry of Lucca and commissioned by Rai, carry the thirteen names on the largest one.

The chapel stands on a grassy lot beside the military airport, along the via dei Caduti di Kindu; the aircraft in which the thirteen airmen died is displayed across the road at the edge of the airfield. The site is on Pisa's southern outskirts, near the railway and the Aurelia, so it is reached by car rather than on foot.

The three bells in the concrete bell tower were commissioned by Rai from the Magni foundry in Lucca in 1963. The largest bears the thirteen names of the Kindu airmen; the middle one is dedicated to the 46th Air Brigade, the smallest to all war dead.