Basilica di Santa Maria sopra Minerva - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Basilica di Santa Maria sopra Minerva - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Santa Maria sopra Minerva is one of the major churches of the Order of Preachers (also known as the Dominicans) in Rome, Italy. The church's name derives from the fact that the first Christian church structure on the site was built directly over () the ruins or foundations of a temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis, which had been erroneously ascribed to the Greco-Roman goddess Minerva (possibly due to interpretatio romana). Read more on Wikipedia
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