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The Temple of Jupiter is a colossal Roman temple in Baalbek, Lebanon. It is the largest of the Roman world after the Temple of Venus and Roma in Rome . It is unknown who commissioned or designed the temple, nor exactly when it was constructed.
The entrance to the Temple of Bacchus in the 1870s Corinthian capitals ornamenting the columns of the Temple of Bacchus in Baalbek. The temple is 66 m long, 35 m wide and 31 m high, making it only slightly smaller than the Temple of Jupiter. [5] The podium on which the temple sits is on an East-West axis.
Baalbek's tourism sector has encountered challenges due to conflicts in Lebanon, particularly the 1975–1990 civil war, the ongoing Syrian civil war since 2011, [9] [11] and the Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present). [12] Baalbek is considered to be part of Hezbollah group's heartland [13] and is known to be their political stronghold. [14]
The blocks known as the Trilithon (the upper of the two largest courses of stone pictured) in the Temple of Jupiter Baal. The Trilithon (Greek: Τρίλιθον), also called the Three Stones, is a group of three horizontally lying giant stones that form part of the podium of the Temple of Jupiter Baal at Baalbek. The location of the megalithic ...
Temple of Bacchus, Baalbek Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek Roman temple of Qsarnaba, near Zahle, Lebanon The column of Iaat in the Beqaa valley, probably a Roman shrine. In the first century the Temples started to be built, using the nearby quarries with famous ""Monoliths".
In the first century the worldwide famous temples in the area of Heliopolis (actual Baalbek) started to be built, using the nearby quarries with famous "Monoliths". The Temple of Jupiter in Heliopolis (in a complex area called even Sanctuary of Heliopolitan Zeus) was the biggest pagan temple in the classical world.
It is believed the site was called the "Castle of Virgins" and was the residence of virgins in Roman times. [3]By the middle of the 2nd century, the Romans had built many small temples and other sanctuaries in the vicinity of the temple district of Heliopolis, today's Baalbek, on the edge of the Bekaa.
Baalbek was a suffragan of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Damascus until it acquired its autonomy in 1849. The cathedral with the bishop's palace were built during the episcopate of Germanos Mouakkad; the church was consecrated by Eparch Agapitos Malouf in 1897.