The good shepherd

We across this building strolling around Lower Town this afternoon, coming at it from the unlabeled east, and wondered what it was.

First thought was that it was a prison, second thought was that it was something religious, bearing a passing resemblance to the big Bruyère Hospital near where we are staying. There were also niches from which devotional statues may have been removed. We get to the front gate to find that it is the Embassy of the Peoples' Republic of China. Why on earth did they settle for such a grim place? Why all the security? The Kuwaitis manage things so much better at the other, western side of Lower Town.

Checking now with wikipedia, I find that the place was indeed a convent for the Sisters of the Good Shepherd.

Reference 1: http://www.bruyere.org/ for the hospital, the top left of whose home page includes an example of the neat bilingualism mentioned in the postcript to http://www.psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/trolley-11.html.

Reference 2: good shepherds may be found at http://www.buonpastoreint.org/home. Google returns plenty of stuff for them, but it does not look very conventual, apart from the images, which do. Maybe they have pulled out of the convent business.