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The Insula dell'Ara Coeli is one of the few surviving examples of an insula, the kind of apartment blocks where many Roman city dwellers resided. [1] It was built during the 2nd century AD, and rediscovered, under an old church, when Benito Mussolini initiated a plan for massive urban renewal of Rome's historic Capitoline Hill neighbourhood.
Remains of the top floors of an insula near the Capitolium and the Insula dell'Ara Coeli in Rome. In Roman architecture, an insula (Latin for "island", pl.: insulae) was one of two things: either a kind of apartment building, or a city block. [1] [2] [3] This article deals with the former definition, that of a type of apartment building.
6346 N Ridge Ave, Chicago: Croatian Catholic mission established in 1972; formerly St. Henry parish church built in 1906 [17] [18] St. Gertrude 6200 N Glenwood Ave, Chicago Parish founded in 1912; current church dedicated in 1931 [19] St. Gregory the Great 5545 N Paulina St, Chicago Founded in 1904 St. Henry 6325 N Hoyne Ave, Chicago
Madonna Della Strada Chapel at Loyola University Chicago. Madonna della Strada is a chapel on the campus of Loyola University Chicago in the neighborhood of Rogers Park, Chicago: it is named after a painting of the Virgin Mary, known as Madonna Della Strada, enshrined at the Church of the Gesù in Rome, the mother church of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits).
The Basilica of St. Bartholomew on the Island (Italian: Basilica di San Bartolomeo all'Isola, Latin: Basilica S. Bartholomaei in Insula) is a titular minor basilica, located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 998 by Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor and contains the putative relics of St. Bartholomew the Apostle . [ 2 ]
St. Viator Church is a historic parish church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago located in the Old Irving Park neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. The church is located at 4170 West Addison Street.
Insula is the Latin word for "island" and may refer to: Insula (Roman city), a block in a Roman city plan surrounded by four streets; Insula (building), a kind of apartment building in ancient Rome that provided housing for all but the elite; Ínsula Barataria, the governorship assigned to Sancho Panza as a prank in the novel Don Quixote
The church was designed by the firm of McCarthy, Smith and Eppig, a firm that worked extensively with Cardinal George Mundelein and produced numerous Chicago area Catholic churches during the Great Depression era, including Queen of Angels in Chicago, St. Joseph and St. Francis Xavier churches in Wilmette and St. Bernardine in Forest Park.