Central America
El Salvador
La Libertad Department

Iglesia El Carmen

The Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Carmen is a catholic parish church in the city of , La Libertad Department, El Salvador. It was completed in 1914 in a neo-gothic style.
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Catholic
  • Description: church in Santa Tecla, El Salvador
  • Also known as: “Church of El Carmen” and “Iglesia del Carmen”
  • Address: 1a Calle Poniente, Santa Tecla
  • Roof shape: gabled
  • Inscription: “La historia de la edificación de la parroquia comienza en 1840 como cumplimiento de un voto a la Virgen del Carmen, hecho por el coronel León Castillo, militante del ejército de Francisco Morazán.”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Academia Británica Cuscatleca and Embassy of the United States of America.

School
The is an established and highly regarded international bilingual school in El Salvador. It is a community of some 1400 students and is fully accredited by Council of International Schools, the International Baccalaureate Organisation, the International Primary Curriculum and the Values-Based Trust for Education. is situated 1½ km east of Iglesia El Carmen.

Government office
Photo: Jesse Michael Nix, CC BY 2.0.
The Embassy of the United States in is located in . The Ambassador of the United States to El Salvador is William H. Duncan from since 2023. is situated 3½ km east of Iglesia El Carmen.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Santa Tecla and Nuevo Cuscatlán.

Photo: randreu, CC BY 3.0.
is a city and a municipality in the La Libertad department of . It is the capital of the department of La Libertad. The city was named after Saint Thecla who was a saint of the early Christian Church, and a reported follower of Paul of Tarsus in the 1st century AD.

Town
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is a district in the department of La Libertad in El Salvador. It is located 13 kilometers from . It borders the north and east with Antiguo Cuscatlán, the south with Huizúcar and San José Villanueva, and the west with Santa Tecla. is situated 4 km southeast of Iglesia El Carmen.

Town
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is a municipality in the La Libertad department of ; its eastern tip lies in the part of the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, southwest of San Salvador and southeast of . is situated 5 km east of Iglesia El Carmen.

Iglesia El Carmen

Latitude
13.67579° or 13° 40′ 33″ north
Longitude
-89.2882° or 89° 17′ 18″ west
Open location code
765GMPG6+8P
Open­Street­Map ID
way 196615967
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­catholic
Open­Street­Map attribute
roof-shape=­gabled
Wiki­data ID
Q5991760
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Iglesia El Carmen”. Photo: Ll1324, CC0.