The church of Santa Maria Assunta, called I Gesuiti, in Venice was designed by Domenico Rossi, according to the text. The infobox names no architect. Venice sold the Jesuits the estate, which held a church, hospital and convent, for 50,000 ducats, and the text says the Manin family financed the new church. The Jesuits demolished the earlier church in 1715. The infobox gives completion in 1729 and consecration in 1728.
The text names no style or dimensions. The plan is a Latin cross with three chapels in the long wing. The two-tier facade has eight columns and statues of the twelve apostles. Green and white marble is used for the pillars and dome, and lapis lazuli for the tabernacle.
A church stood here from 1148 and became a hospital in 1154. The Jesuits were exiled from Venice from 1606 to 1657. It is an operating Catholic church under the Patriarch of Venice. The article gives no hours.
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