This article is part of the research study Dominican architecture and the religious, social and cultural formation in Colombia two hundred years from the independence, it was carried out between 2009 and 2010 jointly by the three faculties of architecture at the Universidad Santo Tomas; the project was developed due to an inniciative of the branch of Bucaramanga, under the direction of historian William Elvis Plata Quezada.Product of the search and selection of primary and secondary sources, a documentary heritage was prepared, which would be part of the raw material used in the section dedicated to the Convent of San José of Cartagena de Indias, this piece of work was conducted by historian Piedad Lucia Otero Uribe, in the Archives of the Province of San Luis Bertran of the Order of Preachers and the General National Archives.The article reports on the erection of the first convent of Cartagena, established by the Order of Preachers under the patronage of San Jose, arguing that their initial foundational core corresponds to 1539, date when it registered something beyond a material project, no matter its humble nature, a first attempt of congregation was consolidated ten years later with the arrival of Fray José de Robles.The Santo Domingo convent placed in Cartagena de Indias is a lucky restoration sample of proper equity in Colombia, such project developed by architect Alberto Samudio Trallero, which is framed in Cultural Property Program developed by