The Church of “Our Lady of Mount Carmel,” dedicated to the Blessed Ver- gine of Mount Carmel, stands on a hill in the southeastern outskirts of the town, known precisely as “Su Cra- mu.” The first core of the building was built in the first half of the 17th century in an area that was rural at the time, probably attached to a Carmelite religious hospice. From a 1908 missive addressed by Parish Priest Luigi Desogus to the Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Cagliari, we know precisely that on the remnants of the old convent
of the Carmelites, here in Nuraminis, stood an old chie- setta dedicated to the Virgin of Mount Carmel, to whom this population has great and special devotion. The cadastre map, dating from the first decade of the last century, seems to confirm that the building’s floor space has not changed and that it is likely the same as in 1908. In the postwar period the church has been remodeled several times with rather in- vasive interventions. The original wooden roof had, for example, been totally replaced with a significantly heavier latero-concrete one. The roof slab had been reinforced over time with four iron rods currently concealed with fake wooden beams on brackets. The floor of the hall is ceramic tile while that of the portico is opus incertum stone with the insertion of a large Latin cross, both recent. An old marble altar, probably dating from the first half of the last century, is still present in the chancel. In fact, the new altar with the ambo are an attempt to adapt the space of celebration to the liturgical reform. In the recent restoration of 2023 it was rebuilt almost to new and reopened for worship. The lumber roof with trusses is rebuilt and the tile roofing is re-made; the bell gable that holds the ancient 18th-century bell is also rebuilt. Now fully restored, it whitens again, on the beautiful hill of the same name.
