Building Name: | San Luca Evangelista |
Location: | Lentini, Italy |
Religious Affiliation: | Catholic Church |
Architecture Type: | Church |
Architecture Style: | Baroque |
San Luca Evangelista is a baroque-style, Roman Catholic parish church located on piazza San Luca, between via Cairoli and via Bricinna, in the town of Lentini, province of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy.[1]
The present church was rebuilt after the 1693 Sicily earthquake using white stone.[2] The interior houses an altarpiece depicting the crucifixion attributed to followers of Tintoretto, and another depicting Francis of Assisi attributed to followers of Jacopo Bassano. There is also a Birth of the Virgin (1760) by Francesco Gramignani Arezzi. The church suffered damage from the 1990 earthquake, which has since been repaired. The interiors are presently a sober neoclassical single nave.[3]