Monastery

St. Teresa of Avila, the reformer of the Order, tried to make her monasteries as self-sufficient as was practicable, and restricted the number of nuns in each monastery. These cloistered and contemplative Carmelite nuns live a life of prayer and sacrifice for God and neighbour and depend on the charity of others.

As daughters of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Carmelite Nuns live in monasteries and offer their lives of prayer and sacrifice to Jesus for the salvation of the world.

The first community of Carmelite hermits lived a hidden life of silence and prayer and separation from the world for the good of the Church.

The recent excavations and the project to conserve and restore the ruins of the first Carmelite monastery situated in the Wadi 'ain es-Siah on Mount Carmel has been found.

The Carmelite Monastery at Margao, of the Karnataka-Goa province of the Order of the Discalced Carmelites was founded on March 19, 1939. The new foundation was declared canonically established with the reading of all the relevant documents. The present monastery building was built in 1943 and thereafter the monastery church.

I visited this monastery in 2017 and wrote the below mentioned post!

http://jubileecardozo.blogspot.com/2018/10/carmelite-monastery-goa.html 

Carmelite Monastery is known for this apostolate. Friars are also involved in other spiritual apostolate like retreat, recollection, spiritual direction and counselling, administering the sacrament of anointing to the sick, etc.

Often a monastery of Carmelite nuns is referred to as a 'Carmel'. Carmelite nuns are 'cloistered', living a life of 'enclosure'.