Churches
Comunità in cammino
Nel 1568 viene costruita la prima chiesa a Roma dedicata al “nome di Gesù”. Oggi le comunità affidate alla Compagnia sono 21, da Trieste a Catania, Tirana compresa. Siamo tra la gente, accanto a ciascuno per un cammino di riconciliazione e giustizia.
Art and spirituality
In 1568 the Jesuits built their first church in the center of Rome and dedicated it to the “Name of Jesus”. It was imitated, for centuries, in countless churches that the Jesuits built throughout the world, becoming a model of Jesuit architecture.
Among the key features of our churches:
- the central location in the city, reflecting Ignatius’ intuition to seek God in the heart of the human experience;
- the plan as a “classroom”, to facilitate the proclamation of the Word;
- the “trigram” IHS, an abbreviation of the Name of Jesus, that emphasizes the personal relationship with Christ;
- the importance of the Eucharist (in the context of the Catholic Reformation);
- the presence, on the sides or in the transepts, of the two main saints of the Society as symbols of the institution’s centrality (St. Ignatius) and of the passion that leads to the last frontiers (St. Francis Xavier),
- the baroque style (as art that gets the “5 senses” involved in the experience of the encounter with God).
Our churches
Chiesa del Collegio – San Michele
Largo San Francesco 14, 07041 Alghero (SS)
+39.079.979234
+39.079.979234
San Michele
Via Ospedale 2, 09124 Cagliari
+39.070.407169
+39.070.407169
SS. Crocifisso dei Miracoli
Via E. A. Pantano 42, 95129 Catania
+39.095.534071
+39.095.534071
San Tomaso
Via Statuto 14, 12100 Cuneo
+39.0171.602128
+39.0171.602128
SS. Cuore di Gesù – Aloisianum
Via San Luigi Gonzaga 8, 21013 Gallarate (VA)
+39.0331.714811
+39.0331.714811
Chiesa del Gesù
Piazza Giacomo Matteotti, 16121 Genova
+39.010.542189
+39.010.542189
S. Maria della Scala in S. Fedele
Piazza San Fedele 4, 20121 Milano
+39.02.86352215
+39.02.86352215
S. Maria della Speranza
Via Arcangelo Ghisleri 19, 80144 Napoli
+39.081.7012823
+39.081.7012823
Maria SS. Immacolata al Gesù Nuovo
Piazza del Gesù Nuovo 2, 80134 Napoli
+39.081.5578111
+39.081.5578111
S. Luigi Gonzaga
Via Francesco Petrarca 115, 80123 Napoli
+39.081.5750266
+39.081.5750266
Chiesa del Gesù a Casa Professa
Piazza Casa Professa 21, 90134 Palermo
+39.091.33221335
+39.091.33221335
Cristo Re
Via del Santuario 160, 65125 Pescara
+39.085.4153549
+39.085.4153549
Chiesa Universitaria di San Frediano
Piazza S. Frediano 5, 56126 Pisa
Chiesa degli Ottimati
Piazza Castello, 89127 Reggio Calabria
Chiesa del Gesù all’Argentina
Piazza del Gesù, 00186 Roma
+39.06.69700232
+39.06.69700232
San Saba
Piazza Gian Lorenzo Bernini 20, 00153 Roma
+39.06.6452014
+39.06.6452014
Sant’Andrea al Quirinale
Via del Quirinale 30, 00187 Roma
+39.06.4819399
+39.06.4819399
Sant’Ignazio in Campo Marzio
Via del Caravita 8a, 00186 Roma
+39.06.6794406
+39.06.6794406
Sacro Cuore di Gesù
Strada Ioan Slavici 16, 440042 Satu Mare, Romania
+40.261.710049
+40.261.710049
SS. Cuore di Gesù
Rruga Kavajes 152, 1001 Tirana, Albania
+355.4.2248691
+355.4.2248691
Sant’Antonio Abate
Via Sant’Agostino 1, 10023 Chieri (TO)
+39.011.2264559
+39.011.2264559
Sacro Cuore
Via del Ronco 12, 34133 Trieste