The Carmelite Monastery perched above San Jose Creek State Beach, between Carmel and Point Lobos. Carmelite nuns first located in Carmel-by-the-Sea in the 1920’s but soon found that small town too populated to afford the solitude they sought. A small group of about two dozen now live in this building, built in the 1930s. They never use their voices, except in the most glorious song, which you can hear by attending their daily morning mass.







Photo No. 239L19 ©1999 Marc Shargel
Photographed at Carmelite Monastery, Carmel, CA

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