Maria Vergine Assunta Church, Catholic parish church in Carrù, Italy.

Maria Vergine Assunta is a brick parish church in Carrù with a west-facing facade divided by a cornice into two registers of pilasters, a central portal and two flanking niches below, and a window with a triangular pediment above. A square bell tower with a round-arched opening on each side stands beside it. Inside, a single nave with side chapels under round arches leads to a square apse.

A 13th-century church of Santa Maria, nicknamed Santa Maria della Vacca because the village gave a cow to the priest each year, stood here. Giovenale Boetto remodelled it in the second half of the 17th century, but damage from the Salt Wars (1680–1699) led to a rebuild to plans by Francesco Gallo from 1703; the bell tower was finished in 1708, the church in 1744, and it was consecrated on 21 September 1774.

The medieval church on this site was nicknamed Santa Maria della Vacca because the village community gave a cow to the priest each year. The present church, dedicated to the Assumption, was consecrated on 21 September 1774. Inside, look for the wooden statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the 1751 painting of the Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine by Cristino Martini.

The facade faces west, so morning light falls on the rear of the building and afternoon light on the entrance front. The bell tower stands on a square base with a single round-arched opening on each side of its belfry, topped by a drum and spire. The interior is one nave with side chapels under round arches; the square apse closes the presbytery at the end.

The medieval church on this site was nicknamed Santa Maria della Vacca because the village community gave a cow to the priest each year. The present building, begun in 1703, was Francesco Gallo's first experiment with a central plan, an interlocking of Greek cross and longitudinal layout.