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The church presents a mono-apex façade, framed between two pilasters, following the Neoclassical style. On the portal is an ovoid-shaped niche in which the image of St. Stephen kneeling is painted, with his white tunic and a cross-signed diaconal, on a Palestinian landscape background. Standing arrear is the square bell tower of 1892, on top of which is a statue of the saint. The most notable surviving element of the medieval chapel is the central part of the façade; it was saved because, in subsequent reconstructions and renovations, it had been first used as posterior wall then as a dividing wall between the space behind the altar and the room for the sacristy in the current building. The interior, with a single nave, contains a wooden statue of St. Stephen (1844), a statue of the Immaculate (XVII sec.) in the stones with which the saint was lapidated, a reliquary of St. Stephen in silver dating back to the half of 18th century. The cross with the symbols of the Passion of Christ is highly significant, particularly in the level of devotion, and is carried in procession during the Good Friday.
Roma 102, Taurisano