Which Roman church hosted Galileo's 1633 sentencing?

Galileo’s 1633 sentencing took place at Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome, specifically in the Dominican convent’s chapter hall beside the church.

On 22 June 1633, the Roman Inquisition read Galileo’s sentence before him. He was declared “vehemently suspect of heresy” for defending the motion of Earth and the Copernican arrangement of the solar system. He was ordered to abjure those views, and his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems was banned.

The wording “church” is common in quiz questions, although the ceremony occurred in a room of the adjoining Dominican convent rather than in the church’s main nave. Santa Maria sopra Minerva therefore remains the standard and fair answer because the church and convent formed the institutional setting of the Inquisition’s proceedings.

The original formal imprisonment was soon commuted to house arrest. Galileo ultimately spent his remaining years at Villa Il Gioiello in Arcetri, where he continued writing despite deteriorating eyesight.