Couvent des carmes déchaussés de Lyon, Carmelite convent on Fourvière hill, Lyon, France

The Carmelite convent sits on Fourvière hill and consists of six buildings arranged around two inner courtyards. The layout with its hallways and stone structures reflects the organized design typical of religious communities.

The convent was founded in 1619 and stood among the first settlements of reformed Carmelites in France. The Rhône Department acquired the buildings in 1904 and converted them into archives.

The convent is dedicated to Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel, and its church, begun in 1622, was consecrated in 1640. In 1860 the community was led by Hermann Cohen, later known as Father Augustine-Marie of the Blessed Sacrament. Since 2014 the buildings have housed the MADE iN Sainte Marie higher-education establishment of the Sainte-Marie Lyon school.

The former convent now belongs to the Sainte-Marie Lyon school group, which since 2014 has used it for its MADE iN Sainte Marie higher-education campus; the buildings are teaching spaces rather than a museum, so access is not open to the public as a monument. The complex stands on the Fourvière hill at the rochers de Thunes, reached by climbing streets, and the long arcade runs along a lower level of the slope.

The convent's church, begun in 1622 and consecrated in 1640, was enlarged in 1729 by the architect Jean-Baptiste Roche. When the Rhône department converted the site into archives between 1907 and 1911 under Louis Rogniat, the upper part of the chapel was demolished, so the surviving building no longer matches its original height.