About Santa Maria sopra Minerva
Santa Maria sopra Minerva is a minor basilica church and one of the major churches of the Dominican order in Rome, Italy. The church's name derives from the fact that the first Christian church structure on the site was built directly over (Italian: sopra) the ruins or foundations of a temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis, which had been erroneously ascribed to the Greco-Roman goddess Minerva (possibly due to interpretatio romana). The church is located in Piazza della Minerva one block east of the Pantheon in the Pigna rione of Rome within the ancient district known as the Campus Martius. The present church and disposition of surrounding structures is visible in a detail from the Nolli Map of 1748. While many other medieval churches in Rome were refurbished during the Baroque era, replacing their Gothic structure and decoration, the Minerva is the only extant example of original Gothic architecture church building in Rome.
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- Bust of Giovanni Vigevano
- Memorial to Maria Raggi
- Elephant and Obelisk
- Piazza della Minerva
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- Villa publica
- Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
- Pontifical French Seminary
- Gammarelli
- Campus Martius
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