Carmelite Monastery

Four Carmelite sisters arrived from St. Louis on November 21, 1877, two of them Creole Louisianians, Louise Roman, known as Mother Teresa of Jesus, and Marie Tremoulet. In 1878 they moved into a pre-Civil War cottage on Barracks Street, now inside the 22-foot walls, and the monastery grew to fourteen courtyards. The chapel was consecrated on November 12, 1895. The cloistered nuns also made paintings, vestments and hosts and translated books. They left in 1971 because they could no longer maintain the buildings, and in 1975 Father Emile Lafranz reopened it as the Center of Jesus the Lord.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Congo Square — 0.4 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.
• The Cabildo — 0.5 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 0.6 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 0.6 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.

More markers nearby

• Italian Hall — steps away
• Saint Augustine Church, New Orleans — steps away
• Tomb of the Unknown Slave — steps away
• The Faerie Playhouse — 0.2 mi