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Santa Sabina Description
Both externally and internally the church of Santa Sabina preserved the character of an early Christian basilica. Built by Peter of Illyria in 425-432 over the house of a Christian woman named Sabina, it was embellished with marble by Pope Eugenius II in 824. In 1222 Pope Honorius II presented the church to the Dominicans. Adjoining the church is a Dominican monastery in which St Thomas Aquinus was a monk, with a beautiful Romanesque cloister. From the terrace next to the church there is a magnificent view across the Tiber towards Trastevere, Piazza Venezia and the Vatican City.
Hobbies & Activities category: Paintings, art collections;  Christian sites
Santa Sabina Highlights

Christian Art

The central doorway in the porch has the oldest carved wooden doors in Christian art (432), of African cedar-wood with delicate and expressive reliefs by unknown artists depicting Old and New
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Mosaics

On the wall above the entrance is one of the oldest mosaics in Rome - two female figures symbolizing the Church of the Gentiles (pagans) and the Church of the Circumcision (Jews), with an
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Address
Santa Sabina
Piazza Pietro d'Illiria
I-00153 Rome
Italy
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Bus: 23, 57, 92, 94, 95, 716.
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