chiesa di Santa Maria del Rosario (Church of Our Lady of the Rosary (Alcamo))

It was founded in 1660 with the adjoining friary (used for public offices and houses after 1866) by the Dominican Fathers.
Until that year they had resided in another friary next to Santa Maria della Stella, where in 1587 there were eight friars and needed an urgent restoration work. They moved to the town area where today there is the Church of the Rosary, and carried the fresco with the Madonna which is still kept in this Church.
In 1761 the church was rebuilt and enlarged a lot, and finally in 1947 became a parish dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary.

The interior with a rectangular nave and nine chapels, keeps the following works which are of good artistic value:

A cross, painted in the 15th century and placed on the ceiling
an old painting of Saint Dominic, on the left side after the main entrance
Saint Peter Martyr, a 17th-century painting; below it there is a wooden statue of Madonna del Ponte made by Giuseppe Ospedale; in the first left chapel
Saint Vincent Ferrer a wooden statue, probably made in the 18th century; second left chapel
Our Lady of the Rosary (Madonna del Rosario) with the Mysteries, a painting by Vito Carrera in 1603; on the secondary door
Saint Anthony of Padua a painting by Mario Giambona (1713), coming from the ex church of Itria; third left chapel
Our Lady of Sorrows, on the wall there is a marble Bas-relief by the school of Gagini, representing Dormitio Virginis; fourth left chapel
In the apse: a beautiful altar with Our Lady of the Rosary and three wooden statues of Madonna and Child, Saint Dominic and Saint Rose of Lima

An old painting of Saint Catherine of Siena: on the right side, past the main entrance
A Dominican saint kneeling before Madonna and Child, made by Bernardo Rizzuti Pauletti from Corleone (1718) in the second room
Saint Dominic, an old painting probably made in the 18th century; below it there is a wooden statue of Saint Expeditus by Domenico Messina; first right chapel
Santa Maria della Stella (1464), a fresco originally from the eponymous church, Santa Maria della Stella, Alcamo, attributed to Tommaso De Vigilia; although damaged and faded due to the passage of time, it still has the original expressive force. In the second right chapel
The Sacred Heart of Jesus, a wooden statue; third right chapel
Elegant altar with a painting of saint Dominic by an unknown author, on…