Ta Xbiex

St.John of the Cross Parish Church


The Discalced Carmelites in 1909 started building a church in Msida near where now we have St Luke’s Hospital. They didn’t realize they did not have a government permit so the works had to stop and were ordered to remove all the stonework and to reinstate the site to its original state even though work was at advanced stage. In 1948 they built a priory and the present church in Ta' Xbiex on a plot of land given to them by Baron Pietro Paolo Testaferrata Moroni Viani. The church was opened for worship in 1958 and became the parish church of the locality on the 1st June 1969. It was dedicated on the 1st June 1989. Luigi Ferrari of Genoa was the architect for this church.