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Cultic activity had long taken place at the site; the temple presumably replaced an earlier one, possibly using the same foundation. [a] It was the biggest temple dedicated to Jupiter in all the Roman Empire. The columns were 19.9 meters high with a diameter of nearly 2.5 meters: the biggest in the classical world.
The interior of the temple is divided into a 98 ft (30 m) nave and a 36 ft (11 m) adytum or sanctuary [6] on a platform raised 5 ft (2 m) above it and fronted by 13 steps. The entrance was preserved as late as the 16th century, but the keystone of the lintel had slid 2 ft (1 m) following the 1759 earthquakes ; a column of rough masonry was ...
The Tell Baalbek temple complex, fortified as the town's citadel during the Middle Ages, [110] was constructed from local stone, mostly white granite and a rough white marble. [62] Over the years, it has suffered from the region's numerous earthquakes, the iconoclasm of Christian and Muslim lords, [ 70 ] and the reuse of the temples' stone for ...
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.
It was built on the site of an ancient Philistine temple before being converted into a church and then a mosque. It was reportedly mostly destroyed by an Israeli strike in December 2023.
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".
Today one of the best examples of Roman Temple architecture is in Lebanon at the ruins of Baalbek. The Roman temple sites in Lebanon can be divided into three main groups. First, the Bekaa valley north of the Beirut-Damascus road. Second, the area south of the same road, including the Wadi al-Taym and the western flank of Mount Hermon.
An Israeli airstrike has destroyed an Ottoman-era building just a stone's throw from the UNESCO-listed temples of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, the closest Israel has come yet to striking one of ...