Sacra Famiglia, Modern church in Via Portuense, Rome, Italy

Sacra Famiglia is a circular-plan church on Via Filippo Tajani, built to a design by Mario Paniconi and Giulio Pediconi and inaugurated in 1978. A metal bell tower by Gian Franco Filacchione (1987) stands beside it, with an iron gate beneath leading to a play area. Inside, the presbytery centres on a large crucifix on a red panel by Ennio Tesei (1979).

The parish was created on 14 August 1932 by vicar cardinal Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani with the decree Cum sanctissimus dominus, entrusted to the Congregation of the Holy Family of Bergamo. The original church, a single-nave brick and concrete building on Via Portuense, was demolished after the suburb's growth made it inadequate. Its replacement, designed by Mario Paniconi and Giulio Pediconi, was completed in 1978; John Paul II visited on 14 February 1994.

The parish, dedicated to the Holy Family, was created on 14 August 1932 by Cardinal Vicar Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani and is run by the Congregation of the Holy Family of Bergamo. The church keeps a 19th-century painting of Mary with the Christ Child whose attribution is uncertain, and a weekday chapel decorated with Byzantine-style icons by Father Cesar Hernandez.

The church stands at Via Filippo Tajani 10, just off Via Portuense in the Portuense district. The iron door beneath the metal bell tower leads to the parish sports courts, not to the church itself. The south side, where the 2009 sundial is painted, is the spot to look for the astronomical clock face.

The bell tower, added in 1987 to a design by Gian Franco Filacchione, is a metal-framed structure; an iron gate beneath it opens onto the parish sports courts. On the south side, a small astronomical sundial painted in exterior colours by Marco Agrillo was added in 2009.