San Vito in Pasquirolo Church, Baroque church in central Milan, Italy.
San Vito in Pasquirolo is a Baroque church in central Milan featuring a facade with two horizontal bands that lead to a triangular pediment. The central entrance has a column-supported porch, and the interior is filled with stucco work and painted decorations.
The church dates to the 12th century and became a parish church in the 14th. In 1621, at the urging of Cardinal Federico Borromeo, it was rebuilt in Baroque style by architect Gian Pietro Orobono; the portal was designed by Bartolomeo della Rovere, called il Genovesino, in 1626. Deconsecrated in 1938, it was granted to the Russian Orthodox Church in 2007 and reopened in 2015 after restoration.
Since 2007 the church has belonged to the Russian Orthodox Church in Italy, which established there the parish of Sant'Ambrogio, the second in Milan after that of Saints Sergius, Seraphim and Vincent, and celebrates the Orthodox rite. The name Pasquirolo comes from the public pasture that once stood in front of the church.
The church stands at Largo Corsia dei Servi 4, a short walk from the Duomo along Corso Vittorio Emanuele II. Since 2007 it has been used by the Russian Orthodox parish of Sant'Ambrogio, so services follow the Orthodox rite; visitors should dress for a place of worship and avoid entering during a liturgy. It reopened in 2015 after restoration.
The name Pasquirolo comes from the public pasture that once stood in front of the church, not from the postwar demolitions that cleared the surrounding area. The church itself was deconsecrated in 1938, and its paintings, including a canvas by Simone Peterzano finished in the 1590s, were dispersed at that time.
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