Basilica Santa Cecilia in Trastevere

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41° 53′ 15″ N, 12° 28′ 34″ E

Santa Cecilia in Trastevere is a 5th century church in Rome, devoted to Saint Cecilia, in the Trastevere rione. The first church on this site was founded probably in the 3rd century, by Pope Urban I; it was devoted to the Roman martyr Cecilia, martyred it is said under Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, by the late 5th century, for in the synod of 499 of Pope Symmachus, the church is indicated with the Titulus Ceciliae.

Tradition holds that the church was built over the house of the saint. Pope Paschal I rebuilt the church in 822, and moved here the relics of St Cecilia from the Scatacombs of t Calixtus.

More restorations followed in the 18th century.