[1] A symbol of rebirth after the Umbria-Marche earthquakes of 1997, it occupies a place where a temporary housing for displaced residents once sat.

The religious building was commissioned by the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) after the earthquakes of the late 1990s.

The architect was inspired by Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut in particolare as well as Gio Ponti's Villa Nemazee in Teheran.

Even though it was the Italian Episcolap Conference that chose Fuksas' design for its innovative character, the architect received some severe criticism.

Vittorio Sgarbi, for example, maintained that the building does not fit in with its surroundings and therefore sticks out too much (this was, however, the intent of the architect), and seems more like a shoebox than a sacred space.