Old Church of St Sebastian, Qormi

Old Church of St Sebastian
Il-Knisja l-Qadima ta' San Bastjan
The church in 2019
Map
35°52′41.5″N 14°28′33″E / 35.878194°N 14.47583°E / 35.878194; 14.47583
LocationQormi, Malta
DenominationRoman Catholic
History
StatusChurch
DedicationSaint Sebastian
Consecrated25 October 2019
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Years built1880–1890
Specifications
MaterialsLimestone
Administration
ArchdioceseMalta
ParishQormi (St George) (until 1935)
Qormi (St Sebastian) (since 1935)

The Old Church of St Sebastian (Maltese: Il-Knisja l-Qadima ta' San Bastjan), commonly known as il-knisja ż-żgħira[1] (Maltese for "the small church"), is a Roman Catholic church in Qormi, Malta, dedicated to Saint Sebastian. It was built between 1880 and 1890 near a statue of the saint which had been erected in 1815 to commemorate deliverance from a plague epidemic in 1813. It was a parish church between 1935 and the 1980s, when a larger parish church with the same dedication was built nearby. The building was only formally consecrated in 2019, and it is now used as an adoration chapel.

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