Pilgrimage Church of Monte Grisa

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Exterior view of the south entrance

The pilgrimage church of Monte Grisa (Italian: Santuario Nazionale a Maria Madre e Regina ) is about 8 km north-northwest of Trieste on the 330 m high Monte Grisa .

history

In 1945 the Bishop of Trieste and Koper , Antonio Santin , made a vow that he would build a church if Trieste was saved from destruction during the war. After Trieste was largely spared in the war, Santin received from Pope John XXIII. permission to build a church in honor of Mary. The foundation stone was laid on September 19, 1959. The construction is based on plans by the Trieste civil engineer Antonio Guacci ( Trani 1912 – Trieste 1995) and lasted from 1963 to 1966.

The first service was celebrated on May 30, 1965, and the church was consecrated on May 22, 1966 by Cardinals Antoniutti and Urbani .

architecture

The pilgrimage church is a monumental exposed concrete building that can be assigned to brutalism . It is divided into an upper and a lower church as well as connected outbuildings and its design is based on a grid of equilateral triangles. The main volume of about 40,000 m³ in total is formed by the main nave of the upper church facing east with the altar as a 40 m high triangular disc with a cut-off tip, which stands parallel to the edge of the karst sloping steeply to the sea and is visible from afar.

At the front and back, a smaller structure of the same basic geometric shape extends the church space; it has been moved to the left and front to the right edge of the main nave. Upper church and lower church are roughly the same size with 1600 and 1500 m². The two church rooms are connected by internal stairs, but each also has its own ground level entrances.

Naming

The church is named differently, on the one hand after the patronage Tempio resp. Santuario Nazionale a Maria Madre e Regina , on the other hand after the location Tempio or Santuario Mariano di Monte Grisa.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Martin and Werner Feiersinger (photos): Italomodern. Architecture in Northern Italy 1946–1976. Vienna, Springer-Verlag 2012, pp. 142–45 and p. 339 (short biography Guacci). Partly available online: doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-7091-0852-9_38 (text and photographs) and biographies (PDF).
  2. ↑ Opuscolo “Storia, Memoriale e Arte” di Monte Grisa, p. 9. Website of the pilgrimage church, accessed on July 25, 2016 (PDF, Italian).

Coordinates: 45 ° 41 ′ 34.7 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 57.7"  E