The church of San Giovanni Evangelista is a religious building in the city of Venice, located in the San Polo district.
Although tradition traces its foundation back to the year 970 attributing it to the Badoer family, the first written documentation attesting to the existence of the church dates back to 1187. During the 15th century the church was radically rebuilt in the Gothic style, with a portico on the facade that housed burials and a squat and not very high bell tower surmounted by a spire. During the seventeenth century there was a first modernization of the architectural elements and a second more radical intervention in 1759 on a project by Bernardino Maccaruzzi. In this last intervention, only the apse and presbytery were kept of the original Gothic structure and the plan of the church became square with a single nave. On the right side, two rectangular chapels with pronounced depth were created. On the left side another chapel leads to the base of the bell tower which is in line with the side of the church and whose cusp was also modified by the eighteenth-century intervention.