Santa Fede, Baroque church in Genoa, Italy.

Santa Fede is a baroque church in Genoa featuring curved lines, detailed ornamentation, and oval-shaped interior spaces characteristic of northern Italian religious architecture. The building occupies a significant position in the city and demonstrates the theatrical spatial design of the period.

The church is first documented in 1142, when Genoa authorised Ansaldo di Vacca to build houses beside it; from 1161 it belonged to the Templars, passing in 1312 to the Hospitallers of San Giovanni di Pré. In 1673 it was rebuilt in Baroque form to a design by Giovanni Battista Grigo, with three naves on ten marble columns and the entrance moved to the east. Consecrated in 1716 by Agostino Saluzzo, bishop of Aleria, it was deconsecrated in 1926 and became a wine store.

The church was consecrated in 1716 by Agostino Saluzzo, bishop of Aleria, when the title of Santa Fede was joined to that of Nostra Signora della Misericordia. A marble statue of the Virgin by Martino Rezi, made in 1618, was venerated here by the people. The parish was suppressed in 1926 and its furnishings, marbles and paintings moved to the new church on Corso Sardegna.

The building is now the Municipio I Centro Est office, entered from via delle Fontane beside the glass panel showing the Romanesque apse remains; the small cloister and the 1845 bell tower were restored with it. The piazza S. Fede opened in front of Porta dei Vacca after the 1990s demolition of the houses that hid the church.

The 1990s restoration by architects Sergio Massarente and Sergio Zampichelli uncovered the central and right apses and wall remains of the Romanesque church, whose entrance faced west, opposite today's building. These fragments are visible through a glazed panel near the current entrance. The complex was the first deliberate thinning of buildings in Genoa's historic centre.