Nostra Signora della Salute, Catholic church in Borgo Vittoria district, Turin, Italy.
Nostra Signora della Salute stands at Via Vibò 26 in Borgo Vittoria, entered from Piazza della Vittoria through a small square courtyard ringed by porticoes. Its gabled facade of stone and brick carries two large equestrian statues, Duke Vittorio Amedeo II and Prince Eugene of Savoy, with a statue of Christ above. The Greek-cross interior is covered by an octagonal reinforced-concrete dome lit by eight round windows and topped by a smaller octagonal lantern.
In 1880 a committee was formed to build a church for the new Borgata Vittoria, then called Borgata Levi, settled around factories along the Dora Riparia. Giovanni Angelo Reycend's 1888 longitudinal plan was replaced after 1890 by a square, fortress-like design, and the first stone was blessed in 1895. The Giuseppini del Murialdo took over in 1927, completing the reinforced-concrete dome in 1934 and the baptistery, pulpit and marble floor by June 1950.
The name refers to Mary as "health", meaning salvation of the homeland and of the sick, chosen because the 1706 siege of Turin was fought in this area. The painting by Enrico Reffo shows the Madonna enthroned with the Child holding a sprig of dittany, with the dates 1706 and 1890. Since 24 October 1992 the right transept holds the urn of Saint Leonard Murialdo, above a large multicoloured window.
The church is at Via Vibò 26, not 24. The main entrance opens from Piazza della Vittoria through a small porticoed courtyard; the street side widens into Piazza Chiesa della Salute. A daily weekday market occupies Piazza della Vittoria, so mornings are busiest.
The dome was only finished in 1934, built in reinforced concrete to a new design by Pietro Betta and topped with a Neo-Romanesque lantern; the earlier scheme was by Giovanni Angelo Reycend. In the right transept, eight panels by Luigi Togliatto Amateis illustrate the life of Saint Leonard Murialdo above his urn, installed in 1992.
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