The church of Santa Domenica was built in the mid-15th century. In a manuscript we read: "Ecclesiae Sancta Dominica in dicta terra in la cui est confratria." In an episcopal visit in 1543 it is said of the high altar "Cum sua cona tela in qua est spasmus".

The church was suppressed in 1886 and deprived of the monastery, transformed into a town hall, began to decay and was closed to the public but, in 1891, after the arrival of Don Salvatore La Corte, it began to flourish again thanks to the offers of the people. The priest Nicolò Chimento continued his work, became rector in 1937, who with his work had it raised to a parish on 5/24/1964 and began to celebrate Mary Help of Christians on the 24th of each month. In the church there are the statues of San Filippo di Agira, and of the Immaculate Conception (XVIII century). In the altar of the crucifix you can admire a silver tabernacle, an antependium in silver foil on red fabric and two paintings of the Adoration of the Magi. In the sacristy there is a gilded and coral-decorated monstrance, a seventeenth-century gift from the Branciforti, and a silver tabernacle for display on Holy Thursday. Present many paintings and stuccoes of the '600, executed under the Roman abbess for 300 ounces (1842). The numerous jealousies are still present, since the church was annexed to a cloistered Benedictine convent.

The monastery was built by the Branciforti in 1400, although in a manuscript of 1700 its construction is described by jure alemosine from 1534 onwards. In 1588, Francesco Lo Scrudato appears in an assignment deed, who had to periodically pay 4 ounces to keep the church lamp lit.