Our Lady of Mount Carmel, or Virgin of Carmel, is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order, particularly within the Catholic Church. The first Carmelites were Christian hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land during the late 12th and early to mid-13th century. They built in the midst of their hermitages a chapel which they dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, whom they conceived of in chivalric terms as the "Lady of the place." Our Lady of Mount Carmel was adopted in the 19th century as the patron saint of Chile.
The Mount Carmel District is a historic neighborhood in Poughkeepsie, New York named for Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church and its associated school.
The Ysleta Mission, located in the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo within the municipality of El Paso, Texas, is recognized as the oldest continuously operated parish in the State of Texas. The Ysleta community is also recognized as the oldest in Texas and claims to have the oldest continuously cultivated plot of land in the United States.
Second Reformed Dutch Church is a historic church building at 178-184 Edison Place in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States.
Anthony J. DePace (1892–1977) was an American architect who designed numerous Roman Catholic churches throughout the Northeastern United States area during the mid to late 20th century.
Joseph A. Jackson (1861–1940) was an American architect who designed many buildings for Roman Catholic clients in the Eastern United States, especially Connecticut.
The Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is a historic Catholic Church off OH 289 in Youngstown, Ohio, United States. It was built in 1913 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 as Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. The parish of the Diocese of Youngstown was established in 1906 by the Missionaries of the Precious Blood and local Italian Immigrates. In 2011 the parish was merged with St. Anthony of Padua parish. The Holy See elevated the church to a Minor Basilica in 2014.
Mt. Carmel School and Church – also known as the Historic Rock Church – is an historic church building and school located along U.S. Route 89 in the Mount Carmel community in what is now part of the town of Orderville, Utah, United States. On October 20, 1987, it applied to be included on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
Our Lady of Sorrows Church is a historic Roman Catholic church on W. National Avenue in Las Vegas, New Mexico. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Bernalillo, New Mexico is a historic church on U.S. Route 85/I-25. It was built in 1857 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
Old St. Mary's Church – formerly Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, and also known as "The Old Church: – at 230 East University Avenue in Tempe, Arizona, is a historic church at the built in 1903 and designed in the Romanesque Revival style by Father Severin Westhoff. It is the longest standing church in the Phoenix metropolitan area and served as a Catholic parish for the Tempe area until 1968, when it became home to the Arizona State University Newman Center. It currently serves as home to Mary College at ASU, a center for Catholic Studies formed in partnership between the University of Mary and Arizona State University, the Diocese of Phoenix, and the All Saints Catholic Newman Center. The Newman Center's offices and chapel stand adjacent to the historic church.
Mount Carmel Presbyterian Church is a historic church in rural Tipton County, Tennessee, United States, near Covington.
The Church of Our Lady of the Mount Carmel, popularly known as Iglesia de la Aguada, is a Roman Catholic parish church in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Mount Carmel Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Carmel, McCormick County, South Carolina. The district encompasses 40 contributing buildings in Mount Carmel. They were built between 1885 and 1920, and include residential, commercial, institutional, religious, and industrial buildings. Notable buildings include Baker's Store, John Cade House, John W. Morrah House (1896), and the Mount Carmel Presbyterian Church.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel is the name or patron saint of many churches. Among them:
The Musée Culturel du Mont-Carmel is a museum of local history on United States Route 1 in Grand Isle, Maine. It is located in the former Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, one of the only surviving 19th-century Acadian churches in northern Maine. The architecturally distinctive building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
The church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St Simon Stock is a Roman Catholic church at 41 Kensington Church Street, Kensington, London W8, served by Discalced Carmelites.
Mt. Carmel Historic District is a national historic district located near Marshall, Saline County, Missouri. The district encompasses two contributing buildings and two contributing sites near Marshall. The district consists of the Gothic Revival style Mt. Carmel Methodist Church (1893), the church cemetery, the nearby Queen Anne style Brown-Dyer House (1891), and the surrounding farm acreage.
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel is a Roman Catholic church in Bayonne, New Jersey. The name is a dedication to the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order, hence the name Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Founded by Polish immigrants in 1898, it grew to become one of the largest Polish congregation in the United States. Part of the Archdiocese of Newark, the parish merged with two others to become the Parish of St. John Paul II in 2016.
