San Salvatore, Former church in Genoa, Italy

San Salvatore is a former church on Piazza Sarzano in Genoa's Molo district. Its baroque facade has a pale ochre central section with deep red panels framed by pale pilasters, a large arched window, and a carved portal with a grey double door. The interior is a single hall with four chapels per side, now used as the university's lecture hall.

Founded in January 1141, when the consuls Guglielmo Malocello and Oberto Della Torre granted land at Sarzano to the priest Ansaldo, the church was Romanesque with three naves. It was rebuilt in Baroque style in 1653 with funding from the brothers Andrea and Bartolomeo Costa, and the three naves were joined into one hall. An air raid in 1942 set it on fire and left it ruined for decades; the university bought it and Luciano Grossi Bianchi directed its restoration, completed in 1992.

The parish was renamed "San Salvatore e Santa Croce" in 1809, when it absorbed the suppressed parish of Santa Croce and its property. Niccolò Paganini and the painter Gioacchino Assereto were baptised here. After deconsecration, parish activities continue in the adjoining Oratorio di Sant'Antonio Abate.

San Salvatore stands on Piazza Sarzano in the Molo quarter, next to the former Sant'Agostino convent complex. The university's architecture faculty, which uses the building as its main lecture hall, is a short walk away in the former San Silvestro monastery. The parish it once served continues at the adjoining Oratorio di Sant'Antonio Abate.

The 1992 restoration uncovered remains of the original Romanesque church's stone facing, hidden since the 1653 Baroque rebuild. The facade's painted decoration, redone then, replaces frescoes by Giuseppe Paganelli made for the 1773 consecration and lost in the 1942 fire.