Acerra Cathedral

Acerra Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral within the town of Acerra in Campania, southern Italy, committed to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The Assumption of Mary into Heaven often shortened to the Assumption is, in keeping with the beliefs of the Catholic Church, Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy, the bodily taking over of the Virgin Mary into Heaven on the quit of her earthly life. Since the 11th century it's been the seat of the Bishop of Acerra.

The gift Neoclassical cathedral stands at the website online of an Ancient Roman temple of Hercules. It has been rebuilt generally and the prevailing constructing is of the 19th century. It has a Latin cross floor plan, with a nave and aspect aisles separated with the aid of piers, and a cupola. The west front is Neo-classical, with eight big Ionic columns standing on a chessboard paving of alternating basalt and marble slabs.