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CategoriesTemple complexes

Temple complexes

Sacred precincts, sanctuaries and the architecture of ritual.

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🇪🇬Egypt

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex

Gobekli Tepe Enclosure F Annex East — Eastern Outlier

Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic

Gobekli Tepe Enclosure F Annex East — Eastern Outlier in Southeastern Anatolia, Sanliurfa, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) temple complex attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex

Kolophon — Ancient Ionian City

Geometric to Hellenistic (1100–133 BCE) · Ionian Greek (Kolophonian)

Ionian interior capital 12-city league famed for cavalry and Claros oracle mother city.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex

Temple of Zeus Olbios at Uzuncaburç (Olba-Diocaesarea)

Hellenistic to Early Roman (Seleucid to Julio-Claudian) · Isaurian–Cilician priest state, Seleucid and Roman Cilicia

Taurus priest-kingdom hilltop Corinthian Zeus temple 6×12 with Zeus lightning entablature, Olba.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex

Smyrna Temple of Athena — Bayraklı (Old Smyrna)

Geometric to Archaic (Old Smyrna) · Ionian Greek (Aiolian foundation)

Bayraklı 630 BCE hekatompedon Athena with Aeolic capitals, earliest Ionian temple on Old Smyrna 8th BCE walls.

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🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid

Sai Island Pyramid & Temple Complex

Kerma Classic to Napatan (2500–300 BCE) · Kerma / Egyptian / Kushite

Strategic Nile island town with Kerma tumuli and Napatan small pyramids — Egyptian fortress-temple city 1550 BCE on 12 km Sai Island between 2nd–3rd cataracts.

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🇲🇱 Mali · Temple complex

Gao – Tomb of Askia

Medieval Songhai (9th–17th c; peak Imperial 1464–1591) · Songhai / Tuareg (Songhai Empire)

Songhai Empire capital's 17 m pyramidal earthen tomb of Askia Mohammad I (1495) east-bank Niger assembly ground.

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🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut

Pataleshwar Cave Temple, Pune

Early Medieval (Rashtrakuta) · Rashtrakuta Shaivite Brahminical (Kannarid influence)

Urban Deccan basalt 8th-c Shiva quarry-temple 40×28 m with circular Nandi mandapa, unfinished Rashtrakuta.

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🇵🇰 Pakistan · Temple complex

Takht-i-Bahi Monastery Court West Cell 12

Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical

Takht-i-Bahi Monastery Court West Cell 12 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Takht-i-Bahi, Pakistan is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.

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🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex

Temple of Apollo Epicurius Bassae North Frieze

Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical Greek/Roman

Temple of Apollo Epicurius Bassae North Frieze in Peloponnese, Bassae, Greece is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical Greek/Roman.

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🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex

Tell Beydar Temple A Annex Courtyard — Southern Extension

Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) · Early Dynastic

Tell Beydar Temple A Annex Courtyard — Southern Extension in Al-Hasakah, Tell Beydar, Syria is a Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) temple complex attributed to Early Dynastic.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex

Teos — Temple of Dionysus and Ancient City

Archaic to Late Antiquity (1000 BCE – 600 CE) · Ionian Greek and Roman / Artists of Dionysus guild

Hermogenes' canonical Dionysus temple 208 BCE — largest Dionysac sanctuary and theatre guild capital.

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🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex

Kerma Defuffa Western Annex Courtyard — Southern Extension

Middle Bronze Age (2500-1500 BCE) · Kerma Culture

Kerma Defuffa Western Annex Courtyard — Southern Extension in Northern State, Kerma, Sudan is a Middle Bronze Age (2500-1500 BCE) temple complex attributed to Kerma Culture.

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🇮🇷 Iran · Temple complex

Chogha Zanbil Ziggurat Outer Court Annex — Western Terrace

Late Bronze Age (1500-1100 BCE) · Elamite

Chogha Zanbil Ziggurat Outer Court Annex — Western Terrace in Khuzestan, Haft Tappeh, Iran is a Late Bronze Age (1500-1100 BCE) temple complex attributed to Elamite.

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🇮🇹 Italy · Temple complex

Monte d'Accoddi Platform North Rite Annex — Western Terrace

Late Neolithic (4000-3200 BCE) · Ozieri Culture

Monte d'Accoddi Platform North Rite Annex — Western Terrace in Sardinia, Sassari, Italy is a Late Neolithic (4000-3200 BCE) temple complex attributed to Ozieri Culture.

≈AcceptedUNESCO

🇲🇹 Malta · Temple complex

Tarxien Central Temple Outlier Court — Northern Annex

Late Neolithic Temple Period (3600-2500 BCE) · Temple Period

Tarxien Central Temple Outlier Court — Northern Annex in Malta, Tarxien, Malta is a Late Neolithic Temple Period (3600-2500 BCE) temple complex attributed to Temple Period.

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🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex

Cañada de la Virgen

Epiclassic – Postclassic (c.530–1040 CE) Bajío – Otomi–Toltec: Lerma tradition · Lerma – Bajío / Otomi

Cañada de la Virgen in the Laja valley saddle near San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, is a mountaintop Epiclassic observatory-city (530–1040 CE) of the Bajío–Otomi tradition at 1,950 m.

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🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex

Banteay Chhmar Temple

Angkorian Bayon period 1181–1218 CE (Mahayana Buddhist imperial) · Khmer (Angkorian Mahayana Buddhist)

Vast Jayavarman VII Buddhist–Hindu temple city (c.1181–1218 CE) in Banteay Meanchey — 9 km² walled complex (outer laterite wall 1.9×1.7 km) enclosing 4.6 ha central temple with enigmatic Bayon-style…

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🇮🇳 India · Temple complex

Ellora Kailasa Temple North Court Plinth

Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical

Ellora Kailasa Temple North Court Plinth in Maharashtra, Ellora, India is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.

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🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex

Temple of Hephaestus (Hephaisteion)

Classical (High Classical, Age of Pericles) · Classical Greek (Athenian)

449–415 BCE Doric 6×13 temple atop Agora Kolonos, best-preserved Greek temple, Hephaestus–Athena Ergane.

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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex

Sanctuary of Demeter at Knidos

Classical to Hellenistic (350–100 BCE peak) · Dorian Greek (Knidian polis)

Peninsula-tip Demeter terrace Doric prostylos with thesmophoria pits and Knidos double harbour.

≈Accepted

🇮🇶 Iraq · Temple complex

Uruk Anu Ziggurat Stone Cone Temple

Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical

Uruk Anu Ziggurat Stone Cone Temple in Muthanna, Warka, Iraq is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.

≈Accepted

🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex

Letoon Temple of Leto South Altar

Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical

Letoon Temple of Leto South Altar in Muğla, Letoon, Turkey is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.

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🇾🇪 Yemen · Temple complex

Marib Awwam Temple Oval Sanctuary

Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical

Marib Awwam Temple Oval Sanctuary in Ma'rib, Marib, Yemen is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.

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🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid

Musawwarat es-Sufra — Great Enclosure (Butana Steppe, Sudan)

Meroitic (300 BCE–350 CE) · Kushite (Meroitic)

Enigmatic Meroitic 3rd-century BCE–1st-century CE sandstone temple complex 25 km from Nile in Butana steppe, 180 km NE of Khartoum and 20 km north of Naqa.