This piece deals briefly, and generally, with the influence of the Church on culture, society and the structure of urban settlements -cities and villages- in Hispanic America. The paper describes the role carried out in the process of developing urban architecture and how, in carrying out their evengelical mission, the church constructed hundreds of religious structures (cathedrals, Central churches, community churches and, hermitages, schools and convents and monasteries for men and women) in the territory of the Kingdome of New Granada during 309 years of domination by the Spanish Crown in what is today Colombia.