#hypostyle

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Hypostyle Hall, Luxor

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The Great Hypostile Hall of Karnak - Luxor, EGYPT

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The Temple of Karnak, truly a Wonder of the World!𓉹

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Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

Karnak, Egypt

New Kingdom Egypt (Ancient Near East)

1550 BCE (temple) 1250 BCE (hall)

Cut sandstone and mud brick

Form: Combining the land from all components of this site, it spans more than 200 acres. The sacred area enclosed to honor Amun is 61 acres all by itself, and the hypostyle hall is 54,000 square feet (making it the largest singular room of any religious building in the world to this day) and is filled with 134 columns. The inside of the temple was originally brightly painted

Content: Inside of the temple, the main path through the center slowly raises the deeper inside the building it gets. The columns inside the hall have shallow reliefs carved into them and depict creation stories, as well as symbols of paradise (lotus, palm plants, papyrus). The roof/ceiling would have been decorated with images of stars, the sky, and birds.

Context: In ancient Egypt, it was believed that at the end of agricultural season, the gods and earth were left exhausted. Because of this, it was necessary to help replenish their energy by participating in the Opet festival. The Opet festival lasted for 27 days, starting at the Temple of Amun-Re and the Hypostyle Hall, and ending 1 and a half miles south. This celebration also strengthened the link between a pharaoh and Amun. Accessibility to the deeper parts of the temple became more and more restrictive with each pylon (see image 2), as a means to show the higher social class was closer to god. However, the deepest part of the temple was restricted to priests and the pharaoh exclusively. The temple and hall were a pilgrimage site for over 2,000 years.

Function: While the religious ritual practices at this site serve as its main function, the temples also represented the creation of the world as the Egyptians believed it. It was believed that the world was originally only water, and that the first solid land to emerge from the water was a pyramid-like mound, also known as a benben. The structure of the temples were shaped in this way as well, so when the Nile flooded, it would seem even more like the original mound of creation.

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Heavyweights: Menorca’s pioneers carved out a life using the blocks of limestone that were abundant during the Ice Age on the Spanish island. Those towers, one of 1,000 talayots constructed, are now a candidate for UNESCO’s World Heritage List, a recognition of cultural treasures. The hypostyle hall above (a roof supported by columns) at the Torre d’en Galmés site was attached to a circular home and probably used to store food or keep livestock.

PHOTOGRAPH BY MARCO ANSALONI

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Anne Poirier and Patrick Poirier, Willa Adriana, Temple of 100 Columns, 1980

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Karnak Temple

After 3 days in Cairo, Leah and I were on the move! We boarded a chartered prop jet with our fellow river cruisers and flew to Luxor, to greet the Viking Ra--currently tied up alongside the Nile's east bank. Ra was to be our floating hotel...

After 3 days in Cairo, Leah and I were on the move! We boarded a chartered prop jet with our fellow river cruisers and flew to Luxor, to greet the Viking Ra–currently tied up alongside the Nile’s east bank. Ra was to be our floating hotel through the following week. After attending an obligatory safety briefing aboard Ra, we were soon exploring Luxor and it’s ancient counterpart, Thebes–home…

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The Temple of Dendera Egypt

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