Monuments

Designed for the Praça de Londres by the architect António Lino, the Church of São João de Deus was inaugurated in 1953, in a zone of Lisbon that is still popularly known as “Avenidas Novas” (New Avenues). This area of the city developed in the first half of the 20th century with the construction of new neighbourhoods, that led to an increase in the number of residents and made it necessary to create new parishes.

The church is simultaneously monumental and functional, beautiful and solemn, designed in order to bring the faithful closer to the altar, unlike most churches where there is a considerable distance between the priest and the congregation.