Santa Maria del Rosario, Alcamo

Santa Maria del Rosario ("Our Lady of the Rosary", also called San Domenico) is a Catholic church in Alcamo, in the province of Trapani.

It was founded in 1660 with the adjoining friary (used for public offices and houses after 1866) by the Dominican Fathers.

[1] Until that year they had resided in another friary next to Santa Maria della Stella, where in 1587 there were eight friars and needed an urgent restoration work.

They moved to the town area where today there is the Church of the Rosary, and carried the fresco with the Madonna[2] which is still kept in this Church.

In 1761 the church was rebuilt and enlarged a lot, and finally in 1947 became a parish dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary The interior with a rectangular nave and nine chapels, keeps the following works which are of good artistic value: In the apse: a beautiful altar with Our Lady of the Rosary and three wooden statues of Madonna and Child, Saint Dominic and Saint Rose of Lima Inside the sacristy there was an alabaster statue of the Virgin and Child, called Madonna della Provvidenza, dating back to the 15th century and attributed to Pietro de Bonitate (today kept in the Sacred Art Museum in the Mother Church), a painting representing the miracle of saint Vincenzo Ferreri made by Giuseppe Renda in 1793,[1] and another representing saint Angela Merici, made in 1905 by Francesco Alesi.