Carmo Convent

The Convent of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is a former Catholic convent positioned within the civil Barro Alto in municipality of Lisbon, Portugal. The medieval convent changed into ruined at some point of the collection of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, and the destroyed Gothic Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on the southern facade of the convent is the primary hint of the extraordinary earthquake nevertheless seen within the vintage town.

The monastery changed into founded in 1389 by the Constable D. Nuno Alvares Pereira ideal army commander of the King, from the small Carmelite convent situated on lands received from his sister Beatriz Pereira and the admiral Pessanha. The reconstruction of the convent started out someday in 1393. In 1407 the presbytery and apse of the conventual church was completed, allowing the first liturgical acts in that year. By 1423 the residential cells were completed, allowing the Carmelites friars from Moura southern Portugal to inhabit the constructing, such as Father Nuno de Santa Maria, the Constable D. Nuno Alvares Pereira who donated his wealth to the convent and entered the convent.

By 1551, the convent contained 70 clergy and 10 servants, paying land rents of about 2500 cruzados yearly. In 1755, an earthquake off the coast of Portugal precipitated enormous harm to the convent and absolutely destroyed the library, which housed about 5000 volumes. The 126 clerics on the time were forced to abandon the constructing, transfering first of all to Cotovia, then to Campo Grande.