Chiesa San Cipriano

The present church was built by architect Fiessa and the Vigevano company. The project was presented to the municipality with the signature of Engineer Fornari on 8 July 1968; the licence was issued on 24 March 1970. Inaugurated in the 1975 Holy Year, on 25 May with the consecration of the altar by Card. Vicar Ugo Poletti. It is a parish seat, erected on 12 December 1957 by decree of Card. Vicar Clemente Micara inter meridiem and entrusted to the diocesan clergy of Rome. The Church has an octagonal plan with protruding brickwork, which gives movement to the exterior; it has a single plan inside.Two stained glass windows, made by G. Sarti and C. Alessandrini, enrich the building: the one above the entrance is mainly blue (representing night); the one above the high altar is predominantly orange (representing daytime). In those years, in our country, large cities, due to migration, were growing continuously and rapidly, beyond imagination, and the need arose to ensure religious and moral assistance to thousands of believers in the new neighbourhoods. In Milan as in Rome, the Church chose to open up to modern forms of architecture even for religious buildings. Card. G.B. Montini in Milan called together the best names in modern architecture, such as L. Figini, G. Pollini, A. Mangiarotti, B. Morassutti, G. Muzio and Gio Ponti.The Church of Saint Cyprian, like others in Rome and around the world, responded to these inspiring principles, which belonged to a Christianity (Vatican Council II) that left behind the idea of a triumphant church, to make itself poor (even in its walls) like the poor, capable of intercepting the need for simplicity and authenticity. These canons, in their desire for essentiality, risked reducing the importance of signs, which in pastoral life have always been an expression of Catechesis. Perhaps for this reason, in many of these buildings, it became necessary to intervene to restore the places of worship to an idea of beauty, without pomp and exaggeration.