Misericordia, Renaissance church in Vicenza, Italy.

Misericordia is a Renaissance church featuring symmetrical proportions and geometric patterns throughout its structure. The building displays classical design principles of its era across its facade and interior spaces.

The hospital of Santa Maria della Misericordia is documented in borgo Pusterla from 1309 as a shelter for poor pilgrims, the sick, widows and abandoned people. Damaged in the Scaliger siege of 1338, it was rebuilt between 1414 and 1430 with a testamentary bequest and run by the confraternity of the Beata Vergine, San Marco e San Bartolomeo. In 1521 the Compagnia di San Girolamo began a larger hospital on the opposite side, which from 1531 became Vicenza's first orphanage; the sick were moved out in 1563.

Since 2010 the church has been officiated by the Serbian Orthodox parish of San Luca, so services follow the Orthodox rite rather than the Catholic calendar. The name Misericordia comes from the medieval hospital of Santa Maria della Misericordia that once stood here, run by the confraternity of the Battuti of the Beata Vergine, San Marco and San Bartolomeo.

The church stands in the Pusterla district on the site of the old hospital, near Piazza Marconi and the Da Porto elementary school. Since 2010 it has been served by the Serbian Orthodox parish of San Luca, so services follow the Orthodox calendar rather than the Catholic one. The former orphanage buildings around it were demolished or converted to civilian use.

The hospital that stood here was one of Vicenza's oldest and, for centuries, its main orphanage. In 1531 the city ordered that orphans be registered and kept at the Misericordia, then apprenticed to outside craftsmen to learn a trade. The orphanage buildings were demolished or converted to civilian use; only the church remains, served since 2010 by the Serbian Orthodox parish of San Luca.