Fieldwork in Rome: exploring religious places in the capital of Catholicism
From September 2025 to January 2026, Giulia Massenz conducted a photographic fieldwork project in Rome, exploring the many expressions of religious diversity in what is often considered the Capital of Catholicism. Through the documentation of over 50 places of worship, she created a visual archive that contributes to comparative socio-spatial research while also serving broader dissemination purposes. Located across both central and peripheral areas of the city, these sites reveal the evolving and spatially embedded presence of ethno-religious diversity in Italy.
The sites documented range from Romanian Orthodox churches to Sikh gurdwaras, Buddhist and Hindu temples, and mosques, as well as African Pentecostal spaces and New Age spiritualities. Some of the outcomes of this fieldwork will be published in the forthcoming volume Superdiversa. Itinerari nella Roma plurale (Quodlibet, 2026).
