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San Giuseppe al Trionfale, elevated to the dignity of Minor Roman Basilica by Paul VI in 1970, owes its origin to the devotion of Blessed Luigi Guanella (1842-1915) towards St. Joseph, who built it with the help of St. Pius X (1835-1914). Built between 1909 and 1912, it was inaugurated and opened for worship by Fr Guanella himself on 19 March 1912, the feast of St Joseph.
The façade was designed and built by architect Aristide Leonori who wanted to keep to the structures of the ancient basilica churches.
It is divided into two bodies with a slender tympanum above the central triple lancet window, which is in turn surmounted by festoons.
In the lower part, decorated with pilasters and pilasters, are the central portal and the two side doors, whose lunettes contain valuable mosaics composed in 1937 by the Vatican Mosaic Studio.
The interior has three naves, divided by ten Baveno granite columns.
The two side aisles, shorter than the central one, end at the height of the transept and each contain a complex of six polychrome stained-glass windows depicting episodes from the life of St Joseph.
In the upper part of the nave, twenty decorated windows give the room a warm luminosity.
The nave measures 60 m in length and 22 m in height, ending with a magnificent coffered ceiling, divided into finely decorated geometric compartments.