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Places to see in ( Livorno - Italy ) Chiesa dei Greci Uniti

Places to see in ( Livorno - Italy ) Chiesa dei Greci Uniti

The church of Santissima Annunziata is located in Livorno , in via della Madonna , a few meters from the temple of San Gregorio and the church of Madonna. It is also known as the Church of the United Greeks , because it was the place of worship of the Byzantine rite of the Eastern community in communion with the Pope. The Orthodox , non-Catholics, had instead a separate church (the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity ) and its own cemetery space (see the Greek-Orthodox Cemetery ).

After the Second World War , when it was sold to a Catholic archconfraternity, it assumed the name of church of the Purification. At the end of the 16th century, many Greeks arrived in Tuscany to serve on the ships of the Order of Santo Stefano dei Cavalieri. Initially this community gathered at the small oratory of San Jacopo in Acquaviva , outside the fortified city. Subsequently, in 1601 , the construction of a national church was started in via della Madonna and the works were completed in March 1606 ; the project is due to Alessandro Pieroni , a very active architect in Livorno medicea .

A century later, the elegant façade was erected, perhaps designed by Giovanni Baratta or Giovan Battista Foggini with the sculptural contribution of Andrea Vaccà , while a small bell tower was built next to the church. Around the mid- eighteenth century the ceiling was enriched by a coffered structure, with a painting in the center of the Annunciation by Giovanni Domenico Ferretti , which hid the previous ornament of exposed beams and trusses . An illustrious papàs ( priest of the Byzantine-Greek rite ) wasDemetrio Camarda ( 19th century ), linguist, historian and Albanian philologist from Piana degli Albanesi , who kept alive the Eastern Christian cult in the city.

The bombings of the Second World War erased most of the church, which was reduced to a pile of rubble from which only the facade and the part of the nave with the bell tower emerged. Restored the façade and rebuilt the body of the church in an aseptic style, in 1951 the church was ceded to the Arciconfraternita della Purificazione which, before the war, had a chapel in the Bagno dei forzati .

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