Regarding Old Goa City among other sites, this particular site of the ruins of St. Dominic’s Church and Convent has been expressly mentioned in their report for conservation, The Committee among other things has said the following: The Order of Dominican Friars was established in Goa in 1548 at the foot of the hill of Nossa Senhora de Monte, near a small spring. The building of the convent with its church was completed in 1564. Both the church and the convent were splendid buildings. Amidst the ruins of this magnificent building the Great Cross aisle which adorned its church still stands, attending the past glory of Dominican Friars of Old Goa City of Goa.