San Giuseppe, Parish church in Sassari, Italy

San Giuseppe is a parish church built between 1884 and 1888 to a design by municipal engineer Francesco Agnesa, on Corso Francesco Cossiga. Its facade follows Palladio's San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice and the church of Santi Fermo e Rustico in Verona; the bell tower takes after Santa Caterina in Mores by Salvatore Calvia (1871). Inside, a rectangular plan has three barrel-vaulted naves, side chapels and a semicircular apse.

San Giuseppe was built between 1884 and 1888 to a design by municipal engineer Francesco Agnesa, in an area then peripheral and isolated from the city centre. The surrounding quarter grew only from 1907, when a teacher-training institute (1912-1913), a primary school (1932-1936), the GIL house (1935) and a workshop later used by the art lyceum were built. Agnesa drew on Gaetano Cima's architectural purism.

Since 1982 the church has housed the Arcigremio BVM della Mercede, whose wooden 17th-century statue of Nostra Signora della Mercede stands in the first chapel on the right, dedicated to Saint Louis Gonzaga. Its solemn feast falls on the first Sunday of October, and the image was crowned on 5 October 1985 by Father Domenico Acquaro, master general of the Mercedarian order.

San Giuseppe stands on Corso Francesco Cossiga, in an area that was peripheral and isolated when the church was built; the surrounding quarter only grew from 1907 onward. The first chapel on the right holds the wooden effigy of Nostra Signora della Mercede, whose solemn feast falls on the first Sunday of October.

The bell tower was modelled on the campanile of Santa Caterina in Mores, built by Salvatore Calvia in 1871. The facade draws mainly on Palladio's San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice and on the church of Santi Fermo e Rustico in Verona. Enrico Berlinguer, later secretary of the Italian Communist Party, was baptised here.