Església del Carme de Barcelona, Modernist church in El Raval, Spain.

The Església del Carme is a basilical-plan church of three naves with side chapels in four identical bays and a fifth, larger bay for the head. The central nave has curved vaults on cylindrical pillars, and all interior walls and pillars are covered in two-tone sgraffito friezes. The brick façade includes a stone portal flanked by two life-size angels holding censers, and a relief of the Carmelite shield with a mountain and three six-pointed stars.

The site began as the Hospital de Sant Maties, founded by testament of canon Pere del Vilar in 1256 and merged into the Hospital de la Santa Creu in 1401. In 1484 Jeronymite nuns exchanged their Santa Margarida monastery for it. Their monastery burned in July 1909 during the Setmana Tràgica; the nuns sold most of the land in 1910 for 625,000 pesetas, and Josep Maria Pericas built the present church between 1911 and 1913.

The parish took the name of the Mare de Déu del Carme after the nearby Carmelite convent church was destroyed and its parish moved here in 1835. The presbytery holds a gilded canopy with an image of the Virgin surrounded by murals of a heavenly glory. The parish centre built around 1935 included an Italian-style theatre, today the Teatre del Raval.

Visit during morning or weekend hours when services take place and the building is open to the public. Keep in mind that this is an active place of worship, so respectful dress and quiet behavior are expected from all visitors.

The bell tower, built in 1923–1924, is a tall rectangular structure with chamfered corners and no openings for most of its height. Only the upper quadrangular section has barbicans and arches holding the bells, under a gabled roof of glazed ceramic. The tower rises at the head of the church, above the apse.