The Mosta Local Council has filed for planning permission to construct a 15-meter obelisk in Mosta Square, positioned in front of the iconic rotunda church.
The monument’s base will measure four meters in width.
This application was submitted in August and is currently under review by the Planning Authority.
Former mayor Chris Grech is listed as the project’s architect.
Mosta’s rotunda church, built in the mid-19th century, drew inspiration from Rome’s Pantheon, which similarly features an obelisk.
Historically, the old Mosta parish church, designed by Tommaso Dingli (1591-1666), had a Dejma Cross memorial situated in front of it.
The architect of the current rotunda, Giorgio Grognet de Vassé, originally intended to include an obelisk at the centre of a large church forecourt. However, these plans were scaled down, and the obelisk was never constructed.
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