The current Parish Church of Colere was built between 1775 and 1788 in a central position, in the Zanoli area, a location equidistant from the numerous districts that constituted the settlement of Colere with its related small places of worship including the Cesulì, which had served as Parish from 1459, after separation from the community of Santa Maria in Vilminore. The need to build a single place of worship was reached to resolve the issue of population increase and to reconcile the strong disagreements about the possibility of expanding and restructuring the Cesulì, in the locality of Gromo, or building a new structure. The church, blessed and opened for worship in 1792 by the Vicar Forane of Vilminore, on behalf of the Bishop of Bergamo Gian Paolo Dolfin, is located on a plateau and has a sagrato of decent size that surrounds it on all sides. The facade is divided horizontally into two orders by a cornice; in the central compartment of the lower order is the stone portal in eighteenth-century style very well shaped, with two modillions on the sides and a broken pediment crowning.
The historian Eugenio Pedrini in the "Historical Memories on the works of art located in the Scalve Valley" for the Royal Superintendency, in 1914, describes it thus: "Construction of the second half of 1700 [...]. On the main door the date 1788 [...]. An antependium, precious work by Piccini, representing in one of the two niches St. Bartholomew flayed, recalls the famous statue of the Milan Cathedral where perhaps Piccini drew inspiration [...]." A careful analysis of the antependium, in 2011, led expert Chiara Spanio, scholar of Lombard goldsmithery and wooden sculpture, to place this artifact among the works erroneously attributed to Giovanni Giuseppe Piccini.
Community altar - Antependium - Presbytery left niche
Community altar - Antependium - Presbytery right niche
Presbytery - Central relief from the 20th century depicting Jesus' prayer in the Garden of Olives
