Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome was planned by Fra Sisto Fiorentino and Fra Ristoro da Campi for the Dominicans. Carlo Maderno designed the apse and facade around 1600. Count Francesco Orsini sponsored the facade in 1453. The infobox gives construction from 1280 to 1370, while the text says the interior was completed in 1453 and the facade finished in 1725.
The article describes a Gothic interior and a restrained Renaissance facade. It gives no materials. The church is 331 feet (101 m) long and 135 feet (41 m) wide.
Papal conclaves met there in 1431 and 1447. It became the seat of the Holy Office in 1628, and Galileo abjured there in 1633. A Neo-Gothic restoration ran from 1848 to 1855, and the Italian government expropriated it in 1870. It is a minor basilica and titular church. The article gives no hours.
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