San Gregorio della Divina Pietà

San Gregorio della Divina Pietà
Façade viewed from west
Basic information
Geographic coordinates	41°53′29″N 12°28′44″E / 41.8914°N 12.4788°E / 41.8914; 12.4788Coordinates: 41°53′29″N 12°28′44″E / 41.8914°N 12.4788°E / 41.8914; 12.4788
Affiliation	Roman Catholic
Country	Italy
Architectural description
Architect(s)	Filippo Barigioni
Architectural type	Church
Architectural style	Baroque
Completed	1729
Direction of façade	West

San Gregorio della Divina Pietà is a small church in Rome, Italy, located in Rione Sant'Angelo, near the Great Synagogue of Rome. It is also known as San Gregorio a Ponte Quattro Capi or Pons Judaeorum due to its proximity to the bridge of that name, or San Gregorietto due to its small size.

The church is in the rione Sant'Angelo of Rome at the Piazza Gerusalemme, north of Tiber Island at the north end of the Pons Fabricius (Ponte Quattro Capi) and east of the Great Synagogue of Rome (Tempio Maggiore).

The shrine has a very ancient origin, but the first document citing it stems only from the twelfth century.

It was built over the houses of the gens Anicia, and later dedicated to Pope St. Gregory the Great because of the tradition that the saint was born here.

San Gregorio was declared a parish church and remained so until 1729, although in the 16th century it lost almost all its territory due to the establishment of the nearby Ghetto. In 1729 the rectangular building was restored by Filippo Barigioni on behalf of Pope Benedict XIII, and given to the Congregation of the Operai della Divina Pietà (Workers of the Divine Mercy), founded in 1679 to help families once well off which had fallen into poverty—its modern appellation comes from that. Low on the external north wall is an 18th-century alms slot with an Italian inscription reading "Alms for poor, honorable and ashamed families". A few yards away is another slot inscribed "MEMORIALI", used to give the priests the names of the persons or families in difficulty.