Chiesa di Santa Maria in Strada, Gothic church in Monza, Italy

Santa Maria in Strada is a Gothic church featuring a terracotta-decorated facade with a rose window and paired vertical windows arranged in bands. The rectangular interior contains a semi-octagonal choir, a presbytery, and secondary altars positioned along the side walls.

Franciscan friars of the Penitence built the church on the site of a ruined oratory, completing it in 1357 to designs by the Milanese architect Ambrosolius; the adjoining convent followed about ten years later. In 1393 the complex was donated to the Augustinians of San Marco in Milan. In 1421 a choir, sacristy and bell tower were added; in 1610 Archbishop Carlo Borromeo ordered a barrel vault, closing the tall windows.

The name refers to the "Strada", the main road from Monza to Milan, where the church stands on today's via Italia. The Augustinians fostered devotion to the Madonna della cintola, a cult approved in 1439 and still represented by the statue at the high altar. A late-14th-century Crucifixion fresco by an unknown painter survives in the passage near the bell tower.

The church stands on Via Italia, the old "Strada" that led from Monza to Milan, in the historic centre. The entrance is on this street front; the small cloister is annexed to the church. The bell tower rises to the right of the façade, and the sacristy corridor leads past a 17th-century portal and a well to the space beneath the bell chamber.

Behind the sacristy, a corridor with a 17th-century portal and a well leads to a space beneath the bell tower, where a large late-14th-century Crucifixion fresco by an unknown painter covers the left wall; fragments of an Annunciation and sinopie survive opposite.