Chiesa di Maria Santissima Di Costantinopoli

Enchanting place

Ideal place for prayer, for the meeting to live a special moment as a family

Imposing in modernity and silent for sacredness and meditation.

The Capuchin Friars Minor, on October 18, 1997, wrote a new page of local history, with the consecration of the new church dedicated to Santa Maria di Costantinopoli. The church has a capacity of 1000 people; the surface is 800 square meters. Ninety are the square meters of the weekday chapel, and 300 square meters of the galleries, a total of about 1200 square meters. The maximum height is 18 meters, the maximum width of 20 meters, the length is 43 meters. It has a parabolic saddle shape and reflects the longing for a rebirth in the unitary spirit of these hectic times. The architectural arrangement that focuses the space in the centrality of the elliptical shape, the verticality-light, characteristics of the large Gothic windows, interprets the need of Man to find himself in his totality with the Absolute. They make the temple even more sacred: the shrine of the Madonna of Constantinople which houses the prodigious image of 1500, the monument to Father Matteo di Agnone which is placed on the right as you enter and a precious relic, the cloak that belonged to San Lorenzo da Brindisi, which the Saint forgot in Agnone when in 1604 he came to preach, located in a small monument on the left as you enter. The cloak was donated to the Capuchin Fathers on 23 September 1996, the anniversary of the death of Padre Pio, by the Archpriest of San Marco Don Alessandro Di Sabato. The wonderful central Crucifix and the splendid stations of the Via Crucis are the work of the artist Romano Mazzini. The main altar, the ambo, the baptistery, the holy water fonts, the monument to Father Matteo da Agnone and the tabernacle of the Blessed Sacrament are the work of the sculptor Michele Di Francesco. (web)

A modern church, liturgical space akin to spiritual sensitivity