Early Temple Architechture and Temple Worship from Ancient Near East, Egypt and Greece

The cultures of the Ancient Near East, Egypt and Greece all had one thing in common: religious worship. These cultures built temples to their gods and worshipped them with different customs and traditions. As a whole, they believed that the gods reside above the world of the humans, and to get closer to their gods, built temples on platforms trying to reach them on a physical level. They had elaborate artwork dedicated to the gods …

…their gods, but they all build temples to worship them and create votive offerings to ask for help, give thanks, and show piety. Near Eastern cultures mainly used mud brick to create their temples, Egyptians used stone and central axes with the corners aligned to the cardinal compass points, and Greeks used a mathematical method of determining how many columns would go on each side of the building and contains a cella, pronaos, and platform.