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Church · Napoli (NA)

Church of Santa Maria della Purità in Naples

  • Visit: about 20 min
Pictured: Napoli · Wolfgang Moroder · CC BY-SA 3.0 · resized and cropped

A Neo-Gothic church from 1894 in San Pietro a Patierno, built by Baron Antonio Colella, with an 18th-century altar in polychrome marble.

In the San Pietro a Patierno district, north-east of Naples, the Church of Santa Maria della Purità was built in 1894 by Baron Antonio Colella on the ruins of a 17th-century church.The Neo-Gothic façade has a gable, a rose window, a stucco bas-relief of the Madonna and saints and a bell gable. Inside, in classical style, we find an 18th-century altar in polychrome marble, an organ and a 19th-century pulpit.

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