Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista, Renaissance religious building in Reggio Emilia, Italy.

The church of San Giovanni Evangelista, known as San Giovannino, stands on piazza San Giovanni in Reggio Emilia's historic centre. Its unfinished terracotta facade carries a niche with a 1956 mosaic of Saint Anthony of Padua. Inside is a single nave; the vault joining dome and main door holds 1613 frescoes, with illusionistic perspectives by Tommaso Sandrini and figures by Lorenzo Franchi.

First mentioned in the 12th century, the church was rebuilt in 1545; almost nothing of the medieval structure survives. In 1808 the Napoleonic government confiscated it and sold it at auction to the merchant Luigi Trivelli, whose son Giacomo used it as a manure store and rented the side chapels as workshops. In 1896 Count Ferrante Palazzi Trivelli ceded it to the Confraternita dell'Immacolata Concezione e di San Francesco d'Assisi, founded in the second half of the 13th century and canonically erected in 1476, which still manages it.

The church is also known as San Giovannino and is dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist, not the Baptist. Since 1896 it has been managed by the Venerable Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception and of Saint Francis of Assisi, founded in the second half of the 13th century and canonically erected in 1476, the oldest surviving confraternity in Reggio Emilia, which opens it to the faithful.

The church is located in the center of Reggio Emilia and welcomes visitors interested in viewing Renaissance architecture or attending services. Keep in mind that access may be limited during worship services and special religious events.

The nickname San Giovannino distinguishes this church from the Basilica di San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma, whose dome by Correggio inspired Sisto Badalocchio's fresco of the Return of Christ here. The church is dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist, not the Baptist.