The church of San Roberto Bellarmino was built between 1931 and 1933 according to the plans of the architect Clemente Busiri Vici. The church is built in the neo-Romanesque style with a brick façade and a simple portico supported by four pilasters and framed by two low octagonal bell towers. The interior has a single nave with a transept and an octagonal dome.
The church of Santa Maria della Pace ai Parioli is the main church of Opus Dei, where the remains of its founder are kept. The church was built between 1954 and 1959 to a design by the young architect Jesús Álvarez Gazapo. The church consists of a single nave with the raised area of the presbytery where the high altar is located, in which the remains of Josemaría Escrivá (1902-1975) are kept.
The church of Santa Maria Addolorata in Piazza Buenos Aires, built between 1910 and 1930, was founded by the Argentinean priest Monsignor José León Gallardo with donations from the Argentinean bishops. It is the first South American national church in Rome. The church was built in a neo-paleo-Christian style. The façade is dominated by a large mosaic that recalls those of the first Christians. The mosaics are by Giambattista Conti, the lectern by Duilio Cambellotti.
The Great Mosque of Rome, built between 1984 and 1995, is the largest mosque in Italy and the largest in Europe. The work of the architect Paolo Portoghesi is meant as a modern syncretism of Maghreb, Ottoman and Persian mosque architecture. The whole is designed to be integrated in the green environment.
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