He presumably completed the work before 391, since at 22. 16. 12 he praises the Serapeum in Egypt as the glory of the empire, and the temple was destroyed by Christians at the end of that year.

Caligula completed the temple of Augustus and the theatre of Pompey and began an amphitheatre beside the Saepta.

Construction began in the 6th century BC during the rule of the Athenian tyrants, who envisaged building the greatest temple in the ancient world, but it was not completed until the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD some 638 years after the project had begun.

Only the platform and some elements of the columns had been completed by this point, and the temple remained in this state for 336 years.

A half-hearted attempt was made to complete the temple during Augustus ' reign as the first Roman emperor, but it was not until the accession of Hadrian in the 2nd century AD that the project was finally completed around 638 years after it had begun.

: 988 pp. includes almost all waka from the Kojiki ( Record of Ancient Matters completed 712 ) through the Man ' yōshū ( Collection for Ten Thousand Generations c. 759 ) and also includes the Buddha's Footstone Poems ( 21 Bussokuseki poems carved in stone at the Yakushi-ji temple in Nara, c. 753 )

This magnificent temple guarded by a Nandi Bull was never completed, despite 86 years of labour.

* The temple at Angkor Wat is completed in Khmer ( present-day Cambodia ).

The Kirtland Temple was the first temple of the Latter-day Saint movement and the only one completed in Smith's lifetime, although the Nauvoo Temple was partially complete at the time of his death.

Partly his reasons were sound scholarly ones — the Masoretic text claims an unbroken history of careful transcription stretching back centuries — but his choice was confirmed for him, because it placed Creation exactly four thousand years before 4 BC, the generally accepted date for the birth of Christ ; moreover, he calculated, Solomon's temple was completed in the year 3000 from creation, so that there were exactly 1000 years from the temple to Christ, who was the fulfilment of the Temple .< ref > James Barr, Biblical Chronology: Legend Or Science?

After a relatively brief halt due to opposition from peoples who had filled the vacuum during the Jewish captivity ( Ezra 4 ), work resumed c. 521 BCE under the Persian King Darius ( Ezra 5 ) and was completed during the sixth year of his reign ( c. 518 / 517 BCE ), with the temple dedication taking place the following year.

* The temple to Athena Nike ( also known as the Wingless Victory ) on the Athenian Acropolis is completed.

Human sacrifice is intended to bring good fortune and to pacify the gods, for example in the context of the dedication of a completed building like a temple or bridge.

In other versions, he encountered Artemis in her temple and she told him to leave the hind and tell Eurystheus all that had happened and his third labor would be considered to be completed.

A design for a pheasant house ( a platform to provide a vantage point for the game shooting ) became a domed temple, the roofs of its classical porticos providing the necessary platforms ; this plan too was never completed.

The Monticello Temple was the 53rd temple completed by the Church.

More notably, Ramesses began the reconstruction of the Temple of Khonsu at Karnak from the foundations of an earlier temple of Amenhotep III and completed the Temple of Medinet Habu around his Year 12.

The summit was the site of a temple for the Capitoline Triad, started by Rome's fifth king, Tarquinius Priscus ( r. 616-579 BC ), and completed by the seventh and last king, Tarquinius Superbus ( 535 – 496 BC ).

On the other hand, the depiction of travel downhill ( from Jerusalem to Jericho ) may indicate that their temple duties had already been completed, making this explanation less likely, although this is disputed.

When the Rātana temple Te Temepara Tapu o Ihoa ( The Holy Temple of Jehovah ) was completed on 25 January 1928, Rātana declared his spiritual work was complete.

The temple complex also contains a model of Angkor Wat ( the most sacred of all Cambodian shrines ), that was started by King Mongkut and completed by King Nangklao ( Rama III ), as the memorial of Angkor Wat and Kingdom of Cambodia that have been occupied by Siam for many hundred years until the colonization of Kingdom of Cambodia by France.

A half-size replica of the temple was completed on June 7, 1968 in the Valley of the Temples ( O ' ahu, Hawaii ).

During Roman times there were important Roman villas at Blakeney, Woolaston and elsewhere, and towards the end of the Roman period, around the year 370, a major Roman temple complex dedicated to the god Nodens was completed at Lydney.

A funerary temple for Seti was constructed in what is now known as Qurna ( Mortuary Temple of Seti I ), on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes while a magnificent temple made of white marble at Abydos featuring exquisite relief scenes was started by Seti, and later completed by his son.

It was hit by a shell fired by the bombarding Venetian army and the great central portion of the temple was blown to smithereens.

( When you see him, you'll notice his habit of fingering, I might almost say, stroking a large mole with black hairs on it, by his right temple.

* In Didyma, an oracle on the coast of Anatolia, south west of Lydian ( Luwian ) Sardis, in which priests from the lineage of the Branchidae received inspiration by drinking from a healing spring located in the temple.

One interpretation of his motive is that it was in revenge for Achilles ' sacrilege in murdering Troilus, the god's own son by Hecuba, on the very altar of the god's own temple.

When prompted by a pair of inauspicious oracles, the king sacked the E-kur temple, supposedly protected by the god Enlil, head of the pantheon.

great ) was subordinate to the priestly ensi, and was appointed at times of troubles, but by later dynastic times, it was the lugal who had emerged as the preeminent role, having his own " é " (= house ) or " palace ", independent from the temple establishment.

It is said that he was desirous of erecting a temple to Jesus, but was dissuaded by the pagan priests.

Image: Louvres-antiquites-egyptiennes-img 2711. jpg | Grant of a parcel of land by an individual to a temple.

More Latins were brought to Rome as citizens and were settled at the foot of the Aventine near the Palatine Hill, by the temple of Murcia

On the promontory was an ancient temple of Apollo Actius, which was enlarged by Augustus, who, to memorialize the Battle of Actium, instituted or renewed the quinquennial games known as Actia or Ludi Actiaci.

* 2012 – The Oak Creek shooting took place at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people ; the perpetrator was shot dead by police.

Between 529 – 520 BC yet another temple was built by the Peisistratids, the Old Temple of Athena, usually referred to as the arkhaios neōs ( ἀρχαῖος νεώς, " ancient temple ").

After an interruption caused by the Peloponnesian War, the temple was finished in the time of Nicias ' peace, between 421 BC and 415 BC.

The untranslated words are no longer used in temple ordinances and have been replaced by the English version.

The temple seems to have been burnt again during the Third Sacred War ( 355 – 346 BCE ), and was in a very dilapidated state when seen by Pausanias in the 2nd century CE, though some restoration, as well as the building of a new temple, was undertaken by Emperor Hadrian.

Aeacus himself showed his gratitude by erecting a temple to Zeus Panhellenius on mount Panhellenion, and the Aeginetans afterwards built a sanctuary in their island called Aeaceum, which was a square place enclosed by walls of white marble.

Adhāī Din Kā Jhonpdā, a Vaishnava Hindu temple built in 1153 and converted into a mosque by Quṭbuddīn Aybak in 1193, is situated on the lower slope of Tārāgarh hill.