Chiesa di Santa Maria Ausiliatrice

Chiesa di Santa Maria Ausiliatrice stands in Jesolo as a parish church within the Diocese of Venice and Triveneto. Its mid-century form reflects Jesolo’s blend of seaside character and twentieth-century religious architecture. The main building took shape around 1950, while the parish began in 1954. The crypt and main hall followed between 1958 and 1959, before consecration in 1959.

Red and pink Verona stone cover the terrace, with nodular ammonitic limestone arranged in a style associated with the 1960s. Water infiltration later prompted careful restoration, including numbered slabs, new waterproofing, and the return of the original stones. Inside, the presbytery, altar, chapels, and renewed suspended ceiling support worship, community gatherings, and the Venetian double-choir tradition. The church also houses a 1928 Mascioni organ, originally made for Venice’s Basilica dei Frari. Its roughly 2,200 pipes occupy the chapels of Saint Anthony and Santa Maria Ausiliatrice, linked by a dark-walnut console. Original bone and ebony keys, bellows, and windchests remain, while restored sounds accompany services and classical concerts.