The church of Santa Maria del Suffragio stands in the historic center of Modugno is known as the Church of Purgatory from the name of the Confraternity that has its headquarters in the building and operates there.
Construction began in 1639, as attested by an engraving on the inner right wall of the portico, and was certainly finished in 1766, the year of its consecration.
The church is preceded by a large churchyard under which in 1860, to make up for a period of severe drought, a cistern was built and accessed through the two wells arranged on either side of the portico.
Of great value is the 17th-century choir loft in gilded and inlaid wood, embellished by the painting of Our Lady of Suffrage and two small symmetrical 18th-century organs, but what strikes the visitor at first glance are the 46 paintings of the 17th-century Neapolitan school, many of them attributed to the Bitontine artist Carlo Rosa.
