Chiesa di Maria Regina Pacis

Chiesa di Maria Regina Pacis stands in Milan’s Gallaratese district as a modern Catholic parish church shaped by post-war expansion. Its polygonal prism rises above a low parallelepiped containing parish facilities. Exposed brick covers most of the exterior, while the front corner opens into a fully glazed facade. Abstract geometric discs in green and blue turn that glass surface into an artwork by Ernesto Bergagna.

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini blessed the foundation stone in 1962. Monsignor Valerio Vigorelli designed the building, completed in 1966 to replace a prefabricated chapel. Inside, a single vaguely rhomboid nave combines exposed brick, concrete corner pillars, stone slabs, stained glass, and a mosaic apse. An octagonal crown carries the Apostles’ Creed around the upper walls.

The weekday chapel and baptismal font receive daylight through octagonal skylights. An eighteenth-century wooden altar from a church in Lampugnano adds an older object to this distinctly modern setting.