Duomo di San Nicola di Bari, Cathedral in Termini Imerese, Italy

The Duomo di San Nicola di Bari is the main church of Termini Imerese, distinguished by its ornately designed facade completed in the early 20th century. The building houses religious spaces and artistic works spanning several centuries within its interior.

The church replaced the medieval church of San Giacomo as the town's mother church when a new building was begun in the upper town at the end of the 15th century, dedicated to Santa Maria La Nova under the title of San Nicolò. On 30 January 1604 Antonio Spadafora was commissioned to design the enlarged cathedral, funded by the obolo della pietà, the obligations of the jurors, the gabella grande sul pane and the tax on snow. The structures and the first order of the facade were completed in 1660; the facade was finished in 1912 to a design by Ernesto Armò, and the church was solemnly consecrated on 28 October 1922 by Cardinal Alessandro Lualdi.

The church is also known as the Matrice di San Nicola di Bari and belongs to the Archdiocese of Palermo. Its patron is Beato Agostino Novello, whose marble group with angels by Filippo Sgarlata (1925) stands over the central portal. The parish is San Nicola, and the building served as the city's main church from the late 15th century.

The church stands on Piazza Duomo, in the upper part of Termini Imerese. The forecourt is enclosed by a wrought-iron railing made in 1926 by Vincenzo Chiavetta and his sons Antonino and Nicola. The three portals, framed by composite columns, open onto the nave; the central one carries Filippo Sgarlata's 1925 marble group of Blessed Agostino Novello with angels.

The marble Madonna della Mazza in the second bay of the right nave is signed by Giorgio da Milano and dated 1487; it came from the church of San Vincenzo Ferreri in the Dominican convent. In the same nave, the oval of the Vergine del Ponte is by Ignazio Marabitti, and the cypress-wood Immacolata by Francesco Quattrocchi dates to 1799.