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The official opening of the NHM took place on December 10th, 2011 and proved to be a marked event within the Greek community of Chicago. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Created to promote understanding of the rich cultural traditions of ancient and contemporary Greece , as well as a focus on the Greek-American immigrant experience, the National Hellenic Museum has ...
The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, (174 BC–132 AD), with the Parthenon (447–432 BC) in the background. This list of ancient Greek temples covers temples built by the Hellenic people from the 6th century BC until the 2nd century AD on mainland Greece and in Hellenic towns in the Aegean Islands, Asia Minor, Sicily and Italy ("Magna Graecia"), wherever there were Greek colonies, and the ...
The Mycenaean megaron (15th to the 13th century BC) was the precursor for later Archaic and Classical Greek temples, but during the Greek Dark Age the buildings became smaller and less monumental. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The basic principles for the development of Greek temple architecture have their roots between the 10th century BC and the 7th century BC.
Burnham developed the 1909 "Plan for Chicago" in a Neo-Classical style, ... 1892 Masonic Temple, ... 1977 St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church;
Most ancient Greek temples were rectangular, and were approximately twice as long as they were wide, with some notable exceptions such as the enormous Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens with a length of nearly 2 1 ⁄ 2 times its width. A number of surviving temple-like structures are circular, and are referred to as tholos. [35]
Notable for its 100-foot length, symbolic of the hundred-meter temples of this period in ancient Greece, the find was fully uncovered in 2023 and features exterior walls and an arch on the west side.
The Corinthian order (Greek: Κορινθιακὸς ῥυθμός, Korinthiakós rythmós; Latin: Ordo Corinthius) is the last developed and most ornate of the three principal classical orders of Ancient Greek architecture and Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric order, which was the earliest, followed by the Ionic order. In Ancient ...
The first Greek immigrants to settle in Chicago arrived in the 1840s via the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. The major fires of Chicago in 1871 caused significant further quantities of Greek immigrants to move to the area, including the founder Christ Chakonas, later dubbed the "Columbus of Sparta," [ 3 ] inspired by the prospect of rebuilding ...