CARMINE CHURCH (SAMBIASE)

Bishop Facchinetti of Nicastro founded the Convent of the Carmelites of Sambiase in 1566. The Church, annexed to the Convent in 1820, was entrustred to the Minimal Fathers who held it until 1866, when the were required to separate from the Convent as a consequence of the law suppressing ecclesiastical mergers.

The Church as well as the Convent were assigned to the town, which used part of the Convent as a jailhouse. One of the characteristic architectural elements of the Church was the typical façade, in the shape of an “M,” standing for the name of the Madonna.

The current façade was built in 1936.

Carmine Church (Sambiase). Storicittà Collection