Location Rome, Italy Groundbreaking 1879 Opened 1887 Year consecrated 1887 Architect Francesco Vespignani | Affiliation Roman Catholic Length 70 metres (230 ft) Phone +39 06 445 3257 Architectural type Church | |
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Ecclesiastical or organizational status Parish church, Titular church, minor basilica Website www.basilicadelsacrocuore.it Address Via Marsala, 37-39, 00185 Roma, Italy Architectural style Renaissance Revival architecture Similar Sacro Cuore di Cristo Re, Sant'Antonio da Padova in Via Me, Sant'Eugenio, Santa Balbina, Santa Croce in Via Flami | ||
Sacro Cuore di Gesú al Castro Pretorio (English: Sacred Heart of Jesus at the Praetorian Barracks) is a Roman Catholic parish and titular church in Rome, Italy.
It was built in 1887 by Conte Francesco Vespignani (1842-1899), the Architetto dei Sacri Palazzi of Leo XIII, who also built the College of S. Anselmo on the Aventine Hill. The imposing statue of the Redeemer atop the campanile was erected only in 1931. Dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the church is served by the Salesian fathers. It has an adjoining boarding-school of arts and industries.
The church was elevated to the status of a minor basilica in 1921.
Cardinal-Deacons
The Church of Sacro Cuore was established as a Deaconry on 5 February 1965 by Pope Paul VI, in anticipation of his creating twenty-seven new cardinals on 28 February 1965.