Temple of Karnak

Written By Detonator on الجمعة، 30 ديسمبر 2011 | 12:43 م

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Temple of Karnak, the oldest temple in the ancient world

Temple Karnak

Earlier today about the largest temple in the ancient world and the karnak temple is located in the city of Luxor in southern Egypt


Temple Karnak

Karnak,
the largest and most important temples in the Luxor area, a temple dedicated to the god Amun, who started the first pharaoh City built and completed by Ramses II, in addition to built temples that lasted until the first century BC
Running the temple of Karnak, the so-called village strongholds in the northern part of the city of Thebes (Luxor), and returns the famous karnak to being in fact a group of temples, many built starting from the family of the 11 approximately in the year 2134 BC., When was a good center for the religion of the Egyptian .
These temples surrounded by walls of brick connected to each other through corridors guarded by statues of the compact rows of sphinxes



The area of ​​the temple of Amun, 140 square meters, which is equipped with a large hall with a mobile roof on 122 column, up more than 21 meters and lined in 9 rows, this is not the reliefs on the columns and the giant gates, and obelisks
Places of worship is the greatest in history, and how not to and the work of construction which was ongoing for 1500 years, and was named after the Islamic conquest .. Where karnak means fort or fortified place, and the entrance to the temple is full of statues by the animal was a symbol of the power of the pharaohs.

Temple Karnak
Has been the construction of the temple to be a home to "the holy trinity of good." This trinity consists of God "Amon" (and the meaning of his name "hidden" Hidden), and his wife, "death" Mut the mother, and son of God "Khun Sue" Khonsu God of the moon, which reflects the sky. The official is based in the temple of Karnak, and then saw them to the temple to pay tribute to another in a suburb of "good" old gods to rest for a period of time, so they built the King, "Amenhotep III," this temple in Luxor. It was said that he had built on the ruins of an old house from the houses of worship.

And thus became the temple of Amon at karnak is the palace official, also became the temple of Luxor, who spends his own house with his family a period of rest and recreation in the specific date each year.
The temple itself is located on the Corniche Road in front of the Nile. In the middle of the wall of the temple almost, there is a small door leading into the temple.
This is the portal dedicated to enter the temple now. Which leads to the temple in the middle of the courtyard known as the yard "of Amenhotep III."
Kings who participated in the construction of the temple of Luxor


Temple Karnak
The temple area of ​​about four acres, has begun to build the King, "Amenhotep III" from 1405 - 1370 BC approximately, which is of the kings of the Eighteenth Dynasty. This king has set up most of the buildings, the temple of Luxor, and that as we mentioned at the beginning of the modern in order to honor and worship the holy trinity of good god "Amen," and the goddess "death", and God "Khun Su."
And participated in the establishment and administration of this temple each of the "Tutankhamen" and kings "any", and "Horemheb", and "First City" and held the King, "Ramses II" expansion in the temple. The record "Tutankhamun" procession scenes "Opt Holiday" on the walls surrounding Bsfi captains of wandering gallery, as well as a trip to "Amon" the annual stop at the Luxor.
And which is no doubt that the temple was established place of an ancient temple of the Middle Kingdom, and began the King "Thutmose III" (1500 BC). Construction of the three chapels of the triple "good" the Holy temple on the ruins of the old one. The booths are still "Thutmose III" found in the courtyard of the King, "Ramses II" the temple. But he was not only known as a temple in the era of the King "of Amenhotep III," which was built three quarters
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