The Iglesia de Santa Rita de Casia is a Catholic church, built in a modernist design. It was built on the initiative of the Order St. Augustine by Father Lorenzo Spiralli in 1943. The architect Víctor Morales was in charge of its design and construction. The church was inaugurated in 1950.

The facade and interior of the building have geometric lines. Windows and entrances are rectangular. The large bell tower on the right of the building is also rectangular in its section and it seems that it was inspired by the Clock Tower on the 5th Avenue that was built in 1921. The roof is paved with red tiles.

On the façade overlooking the fifth Avenue, there is a statue of Santa Rita de Casia made of plaster by the renowned Cuban sculptor Rita Longa in 1943. A palm and a pine tree were planted in front of the church. Through the front entrance you can access to the central nave.

When you enter the Art deco interior, you will see that the three-story building is constructed on successive parabolic arches made of reinforced cement. The rectangular windows are alternating with the arches. The ceiling and the benches are made of mahogany and the altar of marble and alabaster. The walls are adorned with wood carvings, representing the steps that Jesus took on his way to Calvary.

The Iglesia de Santa Rita de Casia had a famous visitor: the US President Brrack Obama visited the church during his visit to Cuba in 2016.

Santa Rita de Cascia (born Margherita Lotti, 1381-1457) was an Italian woman that joined the Augustinian community, when her husband died.  As a religious sister, she was known both for practicing mortification of the flesh and for the efficacy of her prayers. Mortification of the flesh is an act by which an individual or group seeks to mortify, or put to death, their sinful nature, as a part of the process of sanctification. In Christianity, common forms of mortification that are practiced to this day include fasting, abstinence, as well as pious kneeling. Santa Rita de Casia is one of the most popular saints of the Catholic Church, to whom many miracles are attributed. At her canonization ceremony in 1900, she was bestowed the title of Patroness of Impossible Causes. Many people come to this church in search of a solution to their problems that cannot be solved by other means. She is also known known as the patroness of abused wives and heartbroken women. She is often portrayed with various religious symbols, such as forehead wound, the roses and the bees that  indicate a symbol of her penance and stigmata.