San Gabriel was located before in the outskirts of the city, same as the temple of San Nicolás.  The temple was already stablished in the year of 1773. There is a badge at the upper sit,  in the main entrance of the temple, which said  that the construction started  by the Marshal Juan Crisóstomo Falcon in 1867 and was finished it by the General Guillermo Aranguren, Provisional President of the State in the year 1901.

The Prebistero Jesus Hernández Chapellin says that the temple was given for the Catholic cult during the administration of the General Jurado León and during the bishopric of Monsignor Lucas Guillermo Castillo."

The tower was annexed time later to the construction, for the General Antonio Fernández, when he was a President of the State, in 1896.

It is said that San Gabriel preserve a clock of the Marshal "Juan Crisóstomo Falcón".