El Carmen complex

El Carmen is a former convent converted to museum in San Ángel, a southern suburb of Mexico City.

[1] The convent was founded on 29 June 1615 by the Discalced Carmelites in the area of the Aztec village of Tenanitla, which was later renamed San Ángel.

The founder was Father Andrés de San Miguel.

[2] In the university, there was a college for theology students and a library, which contained more than 12,000 books.

[3] The museum contains a large collection of Mexical colonial religious art including paintings of Miguel Cabrera, as well as original furniture of the monastery, and a collection related to the history of the monastery and relates the life of the Carmelites.