Tempio Valdese, Protestant church in central Milan, Italy

Tempio Valdese stands on via Francesco Sforza at the corner of via San Giovanni in Conca. Its facade, a 12th-century gabled front in red brick and white stone with marble inserts, was dismantled in 1948 from San Giovanni in Conca and remounted here. The mosaic lunette shows a candelabrum with a lit candle resting on a Bible, ringed by the Latin motto Lux lucet in tenebris. The modern single-hall interior has a double-pitched ceiling on pointed arches, tall rectangular windows and a wooden pulpit.

The church was founded in 1949 and incorporates architectural elements from the medieval San Giovanni in Conca that once occupied Piazza Missori. This connection with an earlier building links continuity of Protestant presence in the city with deliberate preservation of local history.

The Latin motto Lux lucet in tenebris, "the light shines in the darkness", appears in the mosaic lunette above the portal, where a lit candle stands on a Bible: it is the emblem of the Waldensian movement. The community moved here from the former San Giovanni in Conca church, entrusted to it in 1879 and inaugurated as a Waldensian temple on 8 May 1881.

The temple stands on via Francesco Sforza at the corner of via San Giovanni in Conca, a short walk from Piazza Missori and its metro stop. The medieval facade faces the street and can be seen at any hour; the modern hall behind it is used for worship, so visitors should arrange entry around services.

The façade was dismantled in 1948 and moved here from Piazza Missori, where only part of the apse and the crypt of San Giovanni in Conca remain. Its 12th-century portal mosaic shows a candelabrum with a lit candle resting on the Bible, ringed by the Latin motto Lux lucet in tenebris.