Abstract
The aim of this article is to present the monastic architecture of sixteenth-century New Spain and its artistic decoration, specifically mural paintings and sculptural reliefs. The article presents each element of this unique architecture - mainly the innovative ones, such as open chapels, posas chapels, or atrio crosses - as well as the iconographic programme of the sculptural decoration. The article focuses, however, on the interpretation of this architecture and its artistic decoration in terms of their functions in the process of evangelizing the native Meso-american population. The term millenarianism is used to refer to the evangelizing activities of the mendicant orders. Of particular interest are the manifestations of these activities in the monastic architecture and art.
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