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People pray for the souls of the dead at the old church, which was buried by the 1784 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
This site originally housed a convent built between 1696 and 1706. In 1727, a church was built dedicated to the Immaculate Conception on this site, but it would not operate for even a century. Mount Vesuvius erupted almost completely in 1794, burying the lower levels of the church. The old church's still-visible walls were followed in the construction of a new addition in 1804.
