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Cappella della Clinica Nuova I.T.O.R. is a 21st century private hospital chapel with a postal address at Via di Pietralata 162, in the Monti Tiburtini suburb north of the Via Tiburtina in the Pietralata quarter.

The main entrance to the hospital is on the Via Leopoldo Pilla.

This hospital chapel is, according to the Diocese, now a dependent Mass centre of the parish of San Michele Arcangelo a Pietralata and Mass is celebrated here publicly at 10:30 on Sundays.

You can see the chapel if you go up the Via Cosimo De Giorgi from the Via Leopoldo Pilla, to the east of the main hospital building. The latter is a huge, rather alarming six-storey structure in red brick with lots of angular bastions, but the chapel is a distinct octagonal building standing over a ground-level crypt. The corners have reinforced concrete piers which are continued as support beams for the shallowly pitched roof in grey composition. The beams meet at a very low cylindrical lantern with a flat top.

Five of the chapel's sides are exposed. Four of these have brown brick infill in the lower half, topped by a zone of white render containing two small horizontal rectangular windows. The brickwork is decorated by shallow square bosses, well spaced. The crypt walls are in the same brickwork, slightly recessed under the horizontal beams marking the chapel floor level. The fifth exposed side has two larger vertical rectangular windows, and in the crypt frontage is a square portal. Is this the public's entrance for Mass?

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