WHAT IS THE OTHER NAME OF TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS?

     Don't you know that the great Temple of Artemis is one of the Wonders of the Ancient World? Well, if not, then now you will know that it is in the lists of the seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was located near the ancient of Ephesus and it is about 50 kilometers south from the modern port city of Izmir in Turkey. Now this site lies on the edge of the modern town of Selcuk. 

    

          This temple is also known as the Temple of Diana was a temple dedicated to Artemis. The old temple was destroyed by a flood in seventh century. But the people on Ephesus also known as Turkey in current, built the new temple which known as one of the miracles of the ancient in the world around 550 BC. 


     The Cretan architect Chersiphron and his son Metagenes at the expense of Croeses of Lydia, designed the structured about 120 year. 

       Like the temple of that time, the foundation of the temple was rectangular form. It was made of marble with decorated facade overlooking a spacious courtyard. 

       Except for the central or house of the goddess, there were 127 columns in total, aligned orthogonally over the whole platform are.The temple served as both a marketplace and a religious institution. 

   This is the colored picture of the great Temple of Artemis. It was widely represented on Roman coins, and was reported to be four times the size of the Roman Parthenon. Consisting of 127 white marble columns, each 62 feet high, it was 425 feet long and 220 feet wide. Now the Ephesus is known as Turkey. We can find it now in Turkey.

       Since it is already destroyed, the people in Ephesians vowed to rebuild it but at the beginning of the fourth century some of the population became Christian and started to forget about it and finally St. John Chrysostom demolish the remains of the temple which still standing in 401.

 

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