Santa Chiara delle Cappuccine, Religious complex in Ferrara, Italy

Santa Chiara delle Cappuccine is a monastery complex in central Ferrara containing a church, residential wings, and internal courtyards. The structure sits along Corso Giovecca and includes several altars alongside functional spaces for prayer and communal living.

The church was designed by Luca Danesi under the direction of Marquis Annibale Turchi and Scipione Gualengo, funded by Ascanio Pio di Savoia and Marquis Guido di Bagno. The first stone was laid on 16 June 1641 by Cardinal Marzio Ginetti, and the church was consecrated on 29 October 1673 by Cardinal Carlo Cerri. It was served by Capuchin Poor Clares until 1987, with interruptions during the Napoleonic suppression (1810–1816) and the 1866–1896 confiscation.

The name comes from the Capuchin Poor Clares, whose cloistered monastery was suppressed in 1987; the nuns themselves decided to close it, some moving to San Giovanni Rotondo and others founding a monastery at Lagrimone. Since 2019 the church has hosted Mass in the Tridentine rite, and in 2021 it became a personal parish for faithful attached to the usus antiquior, with Don Davide Benini as first parish priest.

The church stands at Corso della Giovecca 179, and from its forecourt the 20th-century Palazzo Giglioli and the entrance to Parco Pareschi are visible almost opposite. The monastery was suppressed in 1987, so no cloistered nuns live here now; the former cloister rooms belong to a city care home. Since 2019 the Tridentine Mass is celebrated here, and the building was restored and reopened after the 2012 earthquake damage in 2014.

In the presbytery rest the remains of Sister Maria Veronica of the Blessed Sacrament, born Maria Cesira Pazzafini in Ferrara in 1896. She entered the Capuchin Poor Clares here in 1915 and died in 1964; her remains were later moved into the church, and in 2015 Archbishop Luigi Negri opened the diocesan inquiry for her beatification.