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Temple of Concord

Temple of Concord (Aedes Concordiae), Roman temple at the northwest corner of the Roman Forum; vowed by Camillus 367 BCE, rebuilt by Opimius 121 BCE and Tiberius 7 BCE; distinct from the Greek Temple of Concordia at Agrigento.

Temple of Concordia, Agrigento

Temple of Concordia (Tempio della Concordia), Greek Doric temple at Akragas in Agrigento's Valley of the Temples, Sicily; built 5th century BC, 6x13 columns, named from a Latin inscription, preserved by 6th-century conversion to a Christian church.

Temple of Cybele

Temple of Cybele: sanctuaries of the Phrygian mother goddess Cybele (Magna Mater), chiefly at Pessinus, Anatolia, and on Rome's Palatine (dedicated 191 BCE); the Pessinus temple's identification remains debated.

Temple of Dagan

The Temple of Dagan at Mari, modern Tell Hariri in Syria, was the sanctuary of Dagan, chief god of the Middle Euphrates, and is also known as the lions' temple.

Temple of Dagon, Ugarit

The Temple of Dagon at Ugarit is a Bronze Age temple on the acropolis of Ras Shamra, Syria, attributed to the god Dagan by two inscribed stelae.

Temple of Dakka

The Temple of Dakka, also Temple of Dakkeh, is a temple of Thoth of Pnubs at Dakka in Lower Nubia, begun under the Ptolemies and Meroitic king Ergamenes II.

Temple of Debod

The Temple of Debod (Templo de Debod) is an ancient Egyptian temple from Lower Nubia, given to Spain in 1968 and rebuilt in Madrid since 1972.

Temple of Demeter

Temple of Demeter: Greek temples and sanctuaries of Demeter, often with Kore or Persephone, at Eleusis, Teos, Miletus, Naxos, Cyrene, and Dion; identified by inscriptions, terracotta figurines, and piglet votives.

Temple of Demeter and Kore

Temple of Demeter and Kore: name shared by Greek temples to Demeter and Persephone, notably at Teos and Aigai (2nd century BCE inscription), plus Thorikos, Corinth, and Priene sanctuaries.

Temple of Demeter at the Sanctuary of Demeter Malophoros, Selinus

Temple of Demeter Malophoros, Selinus: sixth-century BCE rectangular temple without peristasis on the Gaggera hill, center of the extra-urban sanctuary of Demeter Malophoros, with monumental altar, mid-fifth-century propylon, and Zeus Meilichios precinct.

Temple of Dendur

The Temple of Dendur is a Roman-period sandstone temple from Lower Nubia, dedicated to Isis, that has stood in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1978.

Temple of Derr

The Temple of Derr, or Speos of Ramesses II at Derr, is a rock-cut temple in Lower Nubia built under Ramesses II and dedicated chiefly to Re-Horakhty.

Temple of Dionysus Lysios (Thebes)

Temple of Dionysus Lysios at Thebes, a Boeotian sanctuary of Dionysus the Deliverer (Λύσιος) near the Proetidian gate, described by Pausanias 9.16.6, holding a Semele statue and opened once yearly.

Temple of Divus Augustus (Rome)

Temple of Divus Augustus (templum divi Augusti, templum novum): Roman temple to the deified Augustus, begun by Tiberius and Livia, dedicated by Caligula in 37 CE, burned before 79, restored by Domitian and Antoninus Pius, last attested 248.

Temple of Ellesiya

The Temple of Ellesiya is a rock-cut chapel commissioned by Thutmose III in Lower Nubia and dedicated to Horus of Miam and Satet, now in Turin.

Temple of Eshmun (Sidon)

The Temple of Eshmun at Bustan esh-Sheikh is a Phoenician healing sanctuary of the god Eshmun near Sidon, Lebanon, in use from the 7th century BC to the Byzantine era.

Temple of Ezbet Rushdi

The Temple of Ezbet Rushdi is a mud-brick royal memorial temple of Egypt's 12th Dynasty at Ezbet Rushdi, a village near Tell el-Dab'a in the eastern Nile Delta.

Temple of Fortuna (Jublains)

Temple of Fortuna (Temple de la Fortune), the monumental Gallo-Roman temple at Jublains (Noviodunum), capital of the Diablintes in Mayenne, France; peripteral octostyle on a podium with a 75 m peribolos; deity not formally identified.

Temple of Fortuna Augusta

Temple of Fortuna Augusta (Tempio della Fortuna Augusta), a small Augustan-era imperial-cult temple at Pompeii VII.4.1, built by Marcus Tullius on his own land and at his own expense, served by freedmen and slave ministri.

Temple of Gerf Hussein

The Temple of Gerf Hussein, anciently Per Ptah, was a temple of Ptah and the deified Ramesses II in Lower Nubia, built by viceroy Setau under Ramesses II.

Temple of Hadrian

Temple of Hadrian covers several Roman buildings named for Hadrian: the Hadrianeum in Rome (dedicated 145 AD by Antoninus Pius, Piazza di Pietra) and the small Ephesus porch on Curetes Street, plus Sagalassos and the Quirinal Serapeum.

Temple of Haldi at Musasir

The Temple of Haldi at Musasir, in a small buffer kingdom between Urartu and Assyria, was the chief sanctuary of the god Haldi, sacked by Sargon II in 714 BC.

Temple of Heaven (天坛)

The Temple of Heaven, or 天坛, is an imperial sacrificial complex in southern Beijing where Ming and Qing emperors sacrificed to heaven, completed in 1420.

Temple of Hera at Foce del Sele

Temple of Hera at Foce del Sele (Heraion of the Sele, Hera Argiva sanctuary), Greek sanctuary near Paestum founded, per legend, by Jason; metopes of c. 570 BC, found 1934 by Zancani Montuoro, now in Paestum Museum.

Temple of Hera II (Neptune)

Temple of Hera II (Neptune), also called Temple of Poseidon, is a ca. 460 BCE Doric temple at Paestum, Italy, 6x14 columns, travertine, dedicated to Hera per votive reliefs, one of the best preserved Greek temples.

Temple of Hera Lacinia

Temple of Juno (Hera Lacinia), Doric temple of the second quarter of the 5th century BC at the sanctuary of Hera on Capo Colonna near Crotone, Calabria; hexastyle by 16, Parian marble roof, one column survives.

Temple of Hera, Olympia

Temple of Hera (Heraion), Olympia: Archaic Doric temple built ca. 600 BC, 6x16 columns, shelly limestone and mudbrick, site of the modern Olympic flame-lighting, findspot of Praxiteles' Hermes.

Temple of Heracles

Temple of Heracles (Temple of Hercules): archaic Doric Greek temple at Agrigento, Sicily, ca. 510 BC, 6 x 15 columns, 25.34 x 67 m; dedication to Heracles rests on Cicero. Distinct from the lost Hercules Gaditanus temple at Cadiz.

Temple of Herakles, Cora

Temple of Herakles (Hercules), Cora: Roman Republican Doric temple on the acropolis of ancient Cora, modern Cori, Italy, built 89-80 BC by magistrates Maglius and Turpilius; its Hercules dedication rests on debated evidence.

Temple of Hibis

The Temple of Hibis, or Hibis Temple, is a temple of Amun at Hibis in Egypt's Kharga Oasis, the best-preserved temple of the Egyptian Late Period.