Jewel of the Baroque Potosí Baroque, the Temple of Carmen was built thanks to the munificence of Don Nicolas Fernando Torre who, upon his arrival from Spain, settled for a time in San Luis Potosí, marrying Mrs. Gertrudis Maldonado Zapata at the same time, made his fortune counting on the Hacienda of Peotillos and the Well. When he died, he did not have any descendants, so he ordered in his will that a Carmelite Convent and a School for educated girls of San Nicolas be founded in this city, so he inherited the Hacienda of Pozo del Carmen to the Carmelites, as well as the necessary goods to carry out these actions. King Philip V in 1746 gave his benediction to the foundation. Master José Lorenzo, a native of the town of San Sebastian, directed the work of this marvel. Inside there are several oil paintings of Vallejo and Juarez and the beautiful camarín de la Virgen del Carmen, which was restored identical to the original after a fire in 1950.
The façade is made up of three horizontal bodies superimposed with a triangular finish. In the first picture there are four Solomonic columns, two on each side of the door, and in the intercolumns, two niches, with St. Elijah and St. Eliseus, his disciple.
In the second and third bodies the stipid pilasters that divide them overlap in strict vertical alignment. The frontispiece ends in a wide open angle, within which six angels are seen in acrimony to discover, holding it, a kind of rigid veil, with God the Father in the centre. At the top, the sculpture of St. Michael the Archangel.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the original altar was replaced by a Neoclassical altar from the Three Wars, of which oil paintings are also counted in the interior. The altarpiece dedicated to the seven princes or archangels is still preserved.
In 2017, the Josefina Front Page was restored by the City Council of the Capital.