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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. It is most likely construction begun in the first century BC.
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 ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. City in Baalbek-Hermel, Lebanon Baalbek بَعْلَبَكّ City Temple of Bacchus Baalbek Location in Lebanon Coordinates: 34°0′22.81″N 36°12′26.36″E / 34.0063361°N 36.2073222°E / 34.0063361; 36.2073222 Country Lebanon Governorate Baalbek-Hermel District Baalbek Government ...
Jupiter Optimus Maximus Heliopolitanus (IOMH, also Jupiter Heliopolitanus) was a syncretic supreme god venerated in the great temple of Baalbek, in modern-day Lebanon.The cult of Jupiter Heliopolitanus evolved from the ancient Canaanite religion, particularly the worship of the storm and fertility god Baal-Hadad.
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".
At least two simultaneous Israeli strikes hit around Lebanon's city of Baalbek on Monday, two security sources told Reuters, the first bombardment of eastern Lebanon since regional hostilities ...
English: It was a colossal temple dedicated to the cult of Zeus, located in Heliopolis of Roman Phoenicia (Baalbeck of modern Lebanon). The columns were 30 meters high with a diameter of nearly 2.5 meters, the biggest in the classical world. The Baalbek temple complex. UNESCO World Heritage site. Heliopolis, Baalbek, Beqaa Valley, Lebanon.
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.