Phone +39 010 839 2496 | Province Province of Genoa | |
Address Piazza S. Bartolomeo degli Armeni, 16122 Genova, Italy Similar Chiesa di Santa Maria Ma, Nostra Signora della Con, Villa Imperiale of Terralba, Madonna del Monte, Santi Cosma e Damiano | ||
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San Bartolomeo degli Armeni is a church in the quarter of Castelletto in Genoa, northern Italy.
The church was founded in 1308 by a group of Basilian monks who were fleeing the Turkish invasion of southern Armenia. Of the original edifice, the apse, the dome and the left chapel remain; the right chapel was destroyed in 1883.
The church houses the "Holy Face of Edessa", a line relic with a tempera painting of the face of Jesus, which the Genoese doge Leonardo Montaldo received from the Byzantine emperor, and which he donated to the Basilians. The church houses artiworks by Giovanni Battista Paggi, Orazio de Ferrari, Giulio Benso, Lazzaro Tavarone, Giacomo Boni, Luca Cambiasi, Anton Maria Maragliano and others.
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