It is located in [Av. Central/calle 3]. The Iglesia del Carmen is one of the oldest buildings in the capital and one of the most significant milestones. It’s one nave church that has short, two-sided roof and three big arched entrances, separated from each other by huge doubled pilasters. It doesn’t have the significal front-wall. It has a protuberant mould and ornate fronton. It is grayish-white.

In the year 1830 the sisters Maria Concepcion and Jerónima Quiros and Castro, made the donation of land for the establishment of an oratory to the Virgen del Carmen.

The first church in that place was built in 1841.

It was ordered in Guatemala, is made of mahogany and is put on the altar. In the last Sunday of August it is carried in parade.

In 1860’s, when in Costa Rica was a cholera epidemic, and people promised to themselves that if it will pass away, they will carry the statuette of Black Christ.

For 1845 already had a church on the site and during the decades of 1860 and 1870 was enlarged and rebuilt, resulting in a building with lime and singing at parties and others in brick. The church del Carmen was officially blessed the July 15, 1874, after a long process of construction.

The construction of the Carmelite church was for that reason in 1881, creating a parish around the temple and that one of the four districts of the city centre, was given the same name.