Chartreuse de Currières, Carthusian monastery in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France.

The Chartreuse de Currières is a Carthusian monastery in the mountains of Saint-Laurent-du-Pont featuring individual monastic cells, communal worship spaces, and traditional monastery architecture. The buildings are arranged around a central courtyard and constructed of stone, carefully integrated into the mountain landscape.

Founded by Amblard d'Entremont in 1212, 1296 or 1297, the charterhouse was autonomous before being attached to the Grande Chartreuse in 1388, serving as an annex, refuge and infirmary. Closed, pillaged and partly destroyed during the French Revolution, it became a school for deaf-mute children in the mid-19th century. The monks left in 1903, and the site later served as a barracks, prison camp, Resistance refuge and holiday camp. In 1973 the Carthusians restored it and entrusted it to the Bethleem nuns, who founded the Notre-Dame-du-Buisson-Ardent monastery in 1974.

Since 1974 the site has housed the Monastery of Notre-Dame-du-Buisson-Ardent, a community of nuns of the Monastic Family of Bethlehem devoted to contemplative life. Their way of life means the monastery itself is closed, and only their shop of monastic crafts is open to visitors. Beside the nuns' monastery stands that of the Assumption-Notre-Dame, home to eighteen monks of the same family.

The monastery cannot be visited, in keeping with the contemplative life of the Bethlehem family; only the monastic craft shop is accessible. The church opens for certain celebrations. The site lies about 15 km from the Grande Chartreuse, in the commune of Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, Isère.

The sculpted 13th-century door is the reason the monastery was listed as a monument historique in 1927. Look for it among the pale yellow walls and gray roofs. The site lies about 15 km from the Grande Chartreuse motherhouse, to which it was attached from 1388.