Trasfigurazione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo | |
Fullname: | Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ |
Other Name: | Trasfigurazione di N.S.G.C.[1] |
Native Name: | Chiesa della Trasfigurazione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo |
Native Name Lang: | it |
Mapframe: | yes |
Mapframe-Caption: | Click on the map for a fullscreen view |
Mapframe-Zoom: | 11 |
Mapframe-Marker: | religious-christian |
Coordinates: | 41.8709°N 12.4466°W |
Location: | Piazza della Trasfigurazione 2, Gianicolense, Rome |
Country: | Italy |
Language(S): | Italian |
Denomination: | Catholic |
Tradition: | Roman Rite |
Former Names: | --> |
Status: | titular church |
Dedication: | Transfiguration of Jesus |
Consecrated Date: | 1936 |
Architect: | Tullio Rossi |
Architectural Type: | Rationalist,[2] Egyptian Revival |
Groundbreaking: | 1934 |
Completed Date: | 1936 |
Trasfigurazione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo is a 20th-century parochial church and titular church in the western suburbs of Rome, dedicated to the Transfiguration of Jesus.[3] [4]
The church was built in 1934–36, designed by Tullio Rossi.[5] Behind the altar is a reproduction of Raphael's Transfiguration.
The martyr Fr. Andrea Santoro (1945–2006) was priest at Trasfigurazione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo in 1971–81.[6]
On 21 February 2001, it was made a titular church to be held by a cardinal-priest.