In the second half of the nineteenth century between the years 1870-1900, the city of Sorocaba begins to experience a strong process of modernization articulated by social workers who were part of the political Sorocaba.This period is characterized by the redesign of urban space, end of slave labor to wage labor, beginning the process of industrialization and the establishment of the Republic.This socio-historical context several educational institutions were part of the educational Sorocaba, including the School of Protestant confession of the Presbyterian faith.According to the perspective adopted in this study, this school has maintained relations of power with various social fields, for his proposal met the modernizing ideals and Republicans demanded by elite sorocabana formed by masons, merchants, industrialists, merchants, teachers, intellectuals and others, I saw education as an instrument to solidify its ideals.Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate how the proposed educational Protestant North American Presbyterian confession (1876-1896) contributed to the modernization of the city of Sorocaba, in the setting of a religious Sorocaba and the structuring of power relations made by various social actors.Emphasis is also that Presbyterianism in Sorocaba not only played in the religious field, but also educational, and to this end, positioned himself politically (the political) choosing to legitimize the Republican ideals of matrix-Masonic