The church of Jesus Divine Master was built between 1966 and 1967 by the architect Carlo Bevilacqua. The church has the title of "Jesus Divine Master in Pineta Sacchetti", instituted by Pope Paul VI in 1969. This title was created because of the presence, within the parish of Jesus Divine Master, of the medical faculty of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart.
The church of Santa Maria della Salute was built between 1950 and 1958 in the suburb of Primavalle, built in 1937 to accommodate about 7,000 to 8,000 Romans who had to leave their homes in the historic centre of the city following the demolitions ordered by the Fascist government. The construction of the parish church lasted until 1958; during the 1960s and 1970s, it was decorated with paintings, mosaics and polychrome stained glass windows, mostly donated by Canadian Catholics.
The church of San Cipriano was built in 1975 by the architect Alberto Fiessa and is dedicated to Saint Cyprian. The church has an octagonal plan, with projecting bricks, which give movement to the exterior. The interior has a unique plan, with a sort of small nave that goes around it. The two stained glass windows, made by G. Sarti and C. Alessandrini, are of great artistic value.
The Church of Saint Pius X was designed by Alberto Ressa and was built from 1956 to 1961. In 1963 the final sequences of the science fiction horror film The Last Man on Earth, directed by Ubaldo Ragona or Sidney Salkow (1964), were filmed inside and outside the church.
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