Iglesia Nuestra Señora del Carmen la Mayor, Romanesque Revival church in Montevideo, Uruguay

The Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Carmen la Mayor, known as the Iglesia del Cordón, is a Neo-Romanesque church completed in 1924 to a design by architect Elzeario Boix. It replaced an 1870 building destroyed by fire in 1908. The church has rounded arches and heavy masonry, and outside stands a Galician cruceiro, the oldest in Uruguay.

The first chapel on the site opened in 1805, after the priest of the Iglesia Matriz told Montevideo's Cabildo that there were too few churches outside the walls. It became a parish in 1835, and the foundation stone of a new temple was laid in 1865 and inaugurated in 1870. A fire on the night of 12 December 1908 damaged that building so badly that it was demolished; the present church, designed by Elzeario Boix, was completed in 1924.

Popularly called Iglesia del Cordón after the Montevideo barrio where it stands, the church is dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a widely followed devotion in Uruguay. Inside are altars to St. Joseph of Cupertino, patron of poor students, and to the Virgin of the Thirty-Three, patron of the country.

The church stands at the corner of Juan Carlos Gómez and Minas streets in the Cordón neighbourhood. Visitors can see the Galician cruceiro in the exterior without entering; to view the interior, come outside Mass times.

Outside the church stands a Galician cruceiro, a stone cross on a stepped base, dated to 1800 and described as the oldest in Uruguay. Inside, besides the main altar to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, there is an altar to St. Joseph of Cupertino, patron of poor students, and another to the Virgin of the Thirty-Three, patron of Uruguay.