Description -Architect: Toribio de Alcaraz
-Reference image: http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/6903/conventodesangabrielfh0.jpg
-Maintenance & protection: Comodato de la Universidad de la Américas
-Replaces the Quetzalcoatl pyramidal temple
-Contains original wallpaintings from the XVI Century
-Ocuppied by the Biblioteca Franciscana & Centro de Estudios Humanísticos Fray Bernardino de Sahagún de la UDLA
-Initially it was covered with canyon vaults but in 1581 when retiring the scaffolds, the roof collapsed and between 1595 and 1601 was covered with a wooden roof designed by Luis de Arciniega and the carpenter Juan Pérez de Soto. Ruined in 1661, was covered with vaults of brick of half orange that concluded in 1731.
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