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Temple of Jupiter Anxur
Temple of Jupiter Anxur, Roman terrace sanctuary on Monte Sant'Angelo above Terracina, Italy, honoring a youthful beardless Jupiter, patron of ancient Anxur/Tarracina; three terraces, Great Temple, and 2021 excavations locating his cult on the summit.
Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus
Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus, the principal Roman temple at Heliopolis-Baalbek, Lebanon, dedicated to Jupiter Optimus Maximus Heliopolitanus, a Romanized local storm god; begun ca. 60 BCE, completed under Nero, one of the largest Graeco-Roman temples, with six columns still standing.
Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus
Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus (Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, Aedes Iovis Optimi Maximi Capitolini), Rome's state temple on the Capitoline Hill, dedicated 509 BC to the Capitoline Triad, rebuilt after fires in 83 BC, 69 CE, and 80 CE.
Temple of Jupiter Tonans
Temple of Jupiter Tonans (aedes Iovis Tonantis), Augustan temple on Rome's Capitoline Hill, vowed 26 BC after lightning struck Augustus' litter, dedicated 1 September 22 BC, built in marble as doorkeeper temple of Jupiter Capitolinus.
Temple of Khnum at Esna
Temple of Khnum at Esna (ancient Iunyt, Greek Latopolis): Graeco-Roman Egyptian temple about 60 km south of Luxor; only its 24-column hypostyle hall survives, decorated from Nero to Decius with a zodiac ceiling, recently restored.
Temple of Kronos and Rhea
Temple of Kronos and Rhea (ναὸς Κρόνου καὶ Ῥέας), small temple of the Titans in the Olympieion precinct, Athens, recorded by Pausanias 1.18.7; remains are a mid-2nd-century AD Roman Doric foundation, doubtably identified.
Temple of Liber Pater at Sabratha
Temple of Liber Pater at Sabratha, Libya: Roman temple east of the forum, Julio-Claudian in origin and enlarged under the Antonines, dedicated to the Punic god Shadrapha worshipped as Liber Pater; identified with the East Forum Temple of IRT 55.
Temple of Magna Mater
Temple of Magna Mater (aedes Matris Deum Magnae), Palatine Hill temple of Cybele, begun 204 BCE, dedicated 191 BCE, home of the sacred black stone from Pessinus, rebuilt by Augustus after the AD 3 fire.
Temple of Mars Ultor
Temple of Mars Ultor (Templum Martis Ultoris): Corinthian temple vowed by Octavian at Philippi in 42 BCE and dedicated in 2 BCE in the Forum of Augustus, Rome; housed the Parthian standards and served as the Senate's war-decision venue.
Temple of Mercurius
A Temple of Mercurius is a Roman temple dedicated to Mercury, god of commerce; known examples include the Aventine temple of 495 BC and the puy de Dôme sanctuary.
Temple of Min and Isis
Temple of Min and Isis, main double temple of Coptos (Qift), Egypt, dedicated to Min and his consort Isis; enlarged under Ptolemy II, with a Nero-era gateway (AD 63), a mammisi of Ptolemy IV, and Old Kingdom decrees.
Temple of Minerva at Theveste
Temple of Minerva at Theveste (Tébessa, Algeria): tetrastyle prostyle Roman temple, 15 x 9 x 9 m, 2nd or early 3rd century AD, near-fully preserved, Minerva attribution disputed, museum since 1892.
Temple of Minerva Medica
Temple of Minerva Medica (Tempio di Minerva Medica), so-called: ruined early 4th-century AD decagonal domed nymphaeum near Roma Termini, 25 m dome collapsed 1828, misnamed after a Minerva statue found at Campo Marzio.
Temple of Montu (El-Tod)
Temple of Montu at El-Tod (ancient Djerty, Greek Tuphium), 20 km south of Luxor: one of four Theban cult centers of the war god Montu, from Userkaf's Old Kingdom pillar and Senusret I's temple to the 1936 Tod Treasures.
Temple of Nabu at Palmyra
Temple of Nabu at Palmyra, also called Sanctuary of Nabu, a large Palmyrene temple to the Mesopotamian god Nabu, second only to the Temple of Bel; built 75–80 CE by the Elahbel family, enlarged circa 150–160 CE, now reduced to podium and column bases.
Temple of Nabû of the ḫarû at Assur
Temple of Nabû of the ḫarû at Assur: Neo-Assyrian sanctuary of Nabû and Tašmētu in Assyria's religious capital, traditionally founded by Shalmaneser I, rebuilt by Sin-šar-iškun, excavated by Walter Andrae in 1908; no tablets found.
Temple of Nemesis
Temple of Nemesis (Nemeseion, Νεμεσεῖον): 5th-century BCE Doric temple at Rhamnous, Attica, center of the chief sanctuary of Nemesis; housed Agorakritos' cult statue and was rededicated to Livia.
Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens
The Temple of Olympian Zeus, known in Greek as the Olympieion, was a colossal Corinthian temple in Athens, the largest on the Greek mainland, dedicated by Hadrian in AD 131/132.
Temple of Olympian Zeus, Syracuse
Temple of Olympian Zeus, Syracuse (Olympieion, Tempio di Giove): early Archaic Doric temple of Zeus Olympios, c. 600–555 BC, 3 km south of Syracuse, 6x17 columns, monolithic shafts; only stylobate and two column stumps survive.
Temple of Portunus
Temple of Portunus (Tempio di Portuno), formerly called Temple of Fortuna Virilis: a pseudoperipteral Ionic Republican temple, c. 120-80 BCE, in Rome's Forum Boarium near the Tiber river port, preserved as the church of Santa Maria Egiziaca.
Temple of Poseidon and Amphitrite on Tenos
Sanctuary of Poseidon and Amphitrite at Kionia, Tenos (Tinos), Cyclades: Hellenistic temple, altar, fountain, and 170 m stoa; healing cult, Posideia festivals, founded late 4th century BC, abandoned 3rd century AD.
Temple of Poseidon at Isthmia
Temple of Poseidon at Isthmia, also called the Sanctuary of Poseidon, a panhellenic Greek sanctuary on the Corinthian Isthmus and home of the biennial Isthmian Games; Archaic 7th-century BC temple burned ca. 470 BC, Doric temple of ca. 465 BC rebuilt after the 390 BC fire, later a Palaimon cult center and quarry for Justinian's Hexamilion wall.
Temple of Poseidon at Sounion
Temple of Poseidon at Sounion (Ναός του Ποσειδώνα στο Σούνιο): mid-5th-century BC Doric marble temple on Cape Sounion, Attica, built ca. 444–440 BC over an unfinished Archaic limestone predecessor; 34 columns, 13 survive.
Temple of Preah Vihear
The Temple of Preah Vihear (ប្រាសាទព្រះវិហារ), known in Thai as Phra Viharn, is an 11th-century Khmer Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva, on Cambodia's northern border with Thailand.
Temple of Quirinus
Temple of Quirinus (aedes Quirini), ancient Roman temple on the Quirinal Hill, vowed 325 BC, dedicated 293 BC, rebuilt by Augustus 16 BC; Doric dipteral octastyle with 76 columns, site near the Quirinal Palace gardens.
Temple of Roma and Augustus (Athens)
Small circular Ionic temple on the Athenian Acropolis, dedicated by Athens to the goddess Roma and Caesar Augustus shortly after 27 BC, likely around 20/19 BC; stood 23 m east of the Parthenon on its axis, also called the Roma-Augustus monopteros.
Temple of Roma and Augustus, Leptis Magna
Temple of Roma and Augustus at Leptis Magna, Libya: imperial-cult temple built 14–19 AD under Tiberius on the Old Forum, Ionic octastyle on podium with colossal acrolithic statues of Roma, Augustus, and the Julio-Claudian family.
Temple of Romulus (Rome)
The Temple of Romulus is a small circular brick building in the Roman Forum on the Via Sacra, traditionally said to honor Maxentius's son, who died in 309 AD.
Temple of Soknebtunis
Temple of Soknebtunis, also called Soknebtynis temple at Tebtunis (Tebtynis, Umm el-Baragat), Fayyum, Egypt: main sanctuary of Sobek, Lord of Tebtunis, built under Ptolemy I, excavated 1931-1934, with 210 m dromos and famous papyrus library.
Temple of Somnath and Ruins of Several Temples
Temple of Somnath and Ruins of Several Temples, Bargaon, Katni district, Madhya Pradesh: an ASI centrally protected temple group, protected 1914, documented in 1870 by Peppé; distinct from Bargaon sites at Nalanda, Saharanpur, and Odisha.