Sassari, Church of the Sisters of Gethsemane

The building is in the Porcellana district, developed at the turn of the Second World War.
The church, belonging to the Sisters of Gethsemane, better known as “Manzelliane”, was built between 1940 and the post-war period on a design by the architect Angelo Misuraca.
It stands out because of the tall and soaring bell tower that dominates the entrance, repeating its trend with arched openings in vertical succession up to the bell cell. On the sides, partially made of bichrome bands, vertical septa are inserted in a progressive pattern, which give further impetus to the bell tower.
The only nave opens in a trapezoidal shape towards the presbytery with walls that contain only one uninterrupted window and support a flat wooden roof.

History of studies
A review of studies can be found in the bibliography relating to the fact sheet in the volume of the “History of Art in Sardinia” on nineteenth-century architecture (2001).

Bibliography by
F. Masala, Architecture from the Unification of Italy to the end of the 1900s. Nuoro, Ilisso, 2001, sheet 78.