Artist: Francesco Borromini

Date: 1646-1649

 

• Although the church is much older, the nave you see today is that designed by Borromini at the request of Pope Innocent X (1644-1655)

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• Five of the ecumenical councils of history (1123, 1139, 1179, 1215, 1512) were held here or at the attached Lateran Palace