"A Carmelite convent was created in 1837 in Namur. He was transferred to Jambes, rue d'Enhaive, on 11 August 1906. In 1952, following the damage caused by the second world-class con?it and the development of the Joséphine-Charlotte roundabout, the carmel moved to rue du Trou perdu, now rue de l'Aurore. Between 1931 and 1933, G. De Vlamynck had designed the stained glass windows of the carmel, which will be replaced on the heights of Jambes in 1954 thanks to the generosity of a local entrepreneur who had wished for it if he was healthy again.
In 2017 the very old contemplatives joined their sisters of the Order of Charity in Salzinnes. The Facultés Notre-Dame de la Paix de Namur have just purchased the imposing building, in addition to two other buildings in the city centre, located on rue Blondeau and rue Henri Lemaître.
This is because, since the Bologna reform, the Faculties have had to face a significant increase in their student population. This is now estimated at some 4,300 students but could increase by nearly five hundred units next year. And when you say students, you mean kots. The Namur Faculties, which are working to house one tenth of its students, have a rental stock of 430 kots, which is considered insufficient.
It should have at least 500 of them, thanks in part to the acquisition of the Carmel jambois, which will make it possible to create about thirty kots."
A chronogram giving the date of the last arrangement of the carmel is engraved in a rectangular stone placed to the left of the entrance:
"eCCe regIna DeCor CarMeLI"
which gives the date of 1952.