The Igreja de São Roque in Lisbon began as a shrine started by the city's inhabitants in 1506 to house a relic of Saint Roch. The Jesuits took possession on October 1, 1553, and the first stone of the present church was laid in 1555, with the design revised and expanded in 1565. Afonso Álvares supervised work to 1575, then Baltasar Álvares, and Filipe Terzi completed it.
The infobox says Baroque, while the text says the exterior follows the Portuguese plain style, with an auditorium-church plan built for preaching. The nave is about 59 feet (18 m) wide, spanned by German oak, under a painted trompe-l'oeil ceiling that imitates barrel vaulting.
The Chapel of Saint John the Baptist, designed under Luigi Vanvitelli and Niccolò Salvi, was built in Rome, shipped to Lisbon in 1747 and reassembled. The church survived the 1755 earthquake relatively unscathed, and its ceiling was restored in 2001.
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