Chiesa di Santa Marcella
Historic site · Ostiense, Italy
A parish church on piazza Nicoloso da Recco by Leonardo Del Bufalo, on a hexagonal plan with a matroneum along the side walls and the counter-facade, and a tall reinforced-concrete campanile alongside.
History
Cardinal Vicar Clemente Micara instituted the parish on 13 May 1958 by the decree Qua celeritate. The church holds two altarpieces by the Abruzzese painter Marcello Ercole, exhibited at the IX Quadriennale in 1965, a counter-facade fresco by Dilvo Lotti, and a Mascioni organ, opus 962, of 1973.
Visit
Piazza Nicoloso da Recco, Roma RM
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