Church of Jesus, Baroque church in Alcamo, Italy

The Church of Jesus faces Piazza Ciullo with a Baroque façade of Doric-Tuscan and Ionic pilasters and five niches holding statues of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Francis Xavier, Our Lady of Miracles, and the Archangels Michael and Raphael. Inside, a single nave under a barrel vault leads to the high altar, which has a 1797 painting of the Circumcision of Jesus by Giuseppe Renda. The dome was rebuilt in 1962.

Construction began in 1684 on land given by Alcamo's town council; in exchange the Jesuits added six steps to Porta Stella and rerouted the animal watering trough from piazza Ciullo to via Mazzini. Father Vincenzo Monteleone was appointed procurator on 7 June 1725, when the church stood only eight palms high. Inaugurated on 29 July 1764 and finished with stuccoes in 1767 after 80 years, it was nicknamed "chiesa del Rappezzo".

The stucco cornices and wall decorations in Rococo style were completed in 1767, the year the Jesuits were expelled; they are attributed to Giovanni and Francesco Russo, former assistants of Lorenzo Curti. The Congregation of the Maestranza of Rope Makers, documented here since 1748, venerated a wooden statue of Christ tied to the column, kept in the small chapel near the side entrance on via Mazzini.

The main entrance is on piazza Ciullo, reached by a stone stairway locals call "pietra di li Carrubbazzi"; a second entrance opens on via Mazzini, where the 1500 white alabaster stoup stands. The façade faces the square, so the five niches and the 1989 clock are seen from outside before entering.

The holy water stoup by the via Mazzini entrance is dated 1500 and carved from white alabaster, probably brought here from the church of the Annunciation. Its shaft carries acanthus-leaf motifs and an image of the Annunziata, and the basin once held four angel heads, of which only one survives.