Church of Saints Nazarius and Celsus, Neoclassical church in Brescia, Italy.

The Church of Saints Nazarius and Celsus stands on Corso Giacomo Matteotti at the corner of via Fratelli Bronzetti. Rebuilt from 1746 to 1781 on designs by abbot Zinelli, it is one of Brescia's largest churches, with a statue-topped neoclassical facade and a single broad nave. The entrance carries a bust of bishop Alessandro Fe, a patron of the rebuilding.

A church dedicated to Nazarius and Celsus stood here by 1222, in an area soon enclosed by enlarged city walls. Berardo Maggi founded the present church at the start of the 14th century and installed a college of five priests; a late-Gothic rebuilding ran from 1455 to 1485 under Giovanni Ducco. Antonio Marchetti rebuilt it entirely in the second half of the 18th century, and the canons were suppressed in 1797.

The name comes from the early Christian martyrs Nazarius and Celsus, venerated here since at least 1239, when Alberico da Gambara recorded the street as "strada antiqua S.ti Nazarii". The chapter commissioned Titian's Averoldi Polyptych in 1522 and works by Moretto, Romanino and Floriano Ferramola, who painted the canons' portraits in the Sala Capitolare in 1516.

The church stands on Corso Giacomo Matteotti at the corner of via Fratelli Bronzetti, a short walk north of Brescia's historic centre. Enter from the corso; the Averoldi Polyptych is in the presbytery area, while the Moretto and Gambara altarpieces line the nave chapels. Access may be limited during Mass.

The entrance holds a bust of Alessandro Fe, bishop of Modone, one of the patrons who funded the 18th-century reconstruction. The organ was finished by Luigi Amati in 1803, after the canons' college had been suppressed in 1797 and the church had become a parish church.