San Giovanni Battista alla Creta Church, Parish church in Milan, Italy

San Giovanni Battista alla Creta Church is a parish church in Milan featuring modern architecture with clean lines and geometric forms. The building displays post-war design principles with straightforward facades and organized interior spaces.

In the mid-1950s Milan's population growth led Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini to ask wealthy citizens to fund new churches. Luisa Farina, widow of industrialist Giovanni Cabassi, paid for a church on family land at Cascina Creta. Father Enrico Zucca suggested Giovanni Muzio, who drew up the project in 1956–1957. The church was consecrated on 19 October 1958, and the parish, entrusted to the Lombard Franciscan province, had been erected days earlier.

The parish was entrusted to the Lombard province of the Franciscan Friars Minor, who still serve it. The church is named for Saint John the Baptist and for cascina Creta, the farmstead on whose land the Cabassi family built it. The funeral chapel of the Cabassi family opens off the entrance atrium.

The building is accessible on most days with regular services held throughout the week. Visitors should note that the church is actively used and visit times outside of services are possible.

The church stands on a square lot 65 metres on each side, with the entrance facing east and the apse west. Its exterior walls are clad in exposed brick, part of it laid at an angle to form geometric patterns. The low, horizontal atrium recalls Lombard Romanesque forms, while the church body rises in height and width toward the square, projecting over it on a suspended cantilever.