Church of the Immacolata Concezione, Chieri

This article is about the Cappella dell'Immacolata Concezione in Chieri. For the Cappella dell'Immacolata in Turin, see Church of San Lorenzo, Turin.

The Church of the Immacolata Concezione, also called San Fillippo, is a Roman Catholic temple, built adjacent to a former Oratorian seminary and convent, located on Via Vittorio Emenuele II number 61 in the town of Chieri, Province of Turin, region of Piedmont, Italy. The Seminary is now a museum called Centro Visite Don Bosco.

History

The church was initiated in the 17th-century and not finalized for decades. The architects are unknown; the style is that of Baroque architecture. The interior has main altarpiece by Daniel Seyter. The sacristy has a large canvas by Caraccioli. The main relic of the church are those of St Valentine, represented by a wooden sculpture. In the presbytery is the tomb of Giovanni Comollo, a close friend of San Giovanni Bosco. The adjacent convent-seminary was begun in the 17th-century for the Oratorians of San Filippo Neri; the architect was Pietro Angelo Galletti. The building became city hall from 1821 to 1949, when it was given to the Seminary of Turin.[1]

In 2011, a museum, Centro Visite Don Bosco, has exhibits about the life and work of the founder of the Salesian Order, Saint Giovanni Bosco, who studied in this seminary for nearly half a decade starting in 1835.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Comune of Chieri entry on church.
  2. ↑ Tourism Site for Piedmont, entry on museum.

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