The Basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo al Celio in Rome was built in 398 by Senator Pammachius over the home of the martyrs John and Paul. The article names no architect, materials or dimensions. The infobox lists the style as Paleochristian and Baroque, and the text describes three naves with pillars joined to the original columns. The infobox also gives completion as 1951, which the text does not mention.
Alaric I's sack in 410 and an earthquake in 442 damaged it. Pope Paschal I restored it in 824, and the Normans sacked it in 1084. It was restored around 1099 with a monastery and bell tower. Cristoforo Roncalli painted the apse fresco Christ in Glory in 1588.
It is home to the Passionists and the burial place of Saint Paul of the Cross, and it is the station church for the first Friday in Lent. Underground Roman rooms are reached outside the church on Clivus Scauri.
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