The columns, the ceiling, and the walls are extraordinarily decorated.
The falcon on the left is in a great state of conservation, except for the painting it would originally have had, which would surely give it a colossal image.Īfter leaving the falcons, we enter the great hypostyle hall, supported by 18 monumental columns. high, crowned with the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. At the end of it, before the entrance to the great hypostyle hall, there are two imposing falcons, 3.2m. Then you enter the large courtyard, surrounded by columns. On both sides of the access door, there are four slots, where in the past masts were erected with banners, in front of the pylon walls. The pylon of Edfu temple, 36x74m, is only surpassed by Karnak. The blackened ceiling of the hypostyle hall, still visible, is believed to be the result of arson to destroy religious images that were considered pagan at the time. As in other places, many of the carved reliefs of the temple were razed to the ground by the Christians who came to dominate Egypt. The temple of Edfu fell into disuse as a religious building after the edict of Theodosius I which forbade non-Christian worship within the Roman Empire in 391 AD. It did not see the light of day again until 1860. In 1798, during Napoleon’s campaign in Egypt, the temple was buried some twelve meters below the desert sand. Next was the naos of the sanctuary, which led to the Sanctum sanctorum of the temple, where the statue of the temple deity Horus in this case, was located. The temple of Edfu maintains the classical structure of the Greco-Roman period, beginning with the pylon, followed by a courtyard and the building of the pronaos or hypostyle room. The temple is dedicated to the falcon god Horus.
is one of the four temples and places where the events of the legend of Osiris, Isis, and Horus take place. It is a stopping place for most of the Nile cruise sailing the Nile river. The temple of Edfu, located in the city of the same name ( Edfu) is situated on the west bank of the Nile, 115 km south of Luxor and 105 km north of Aswan. It represents the typical construction of the temples with the pylon. It measures 137 meters long by 79 meters wide and 36 meters high. Dedicated to the falcon god Horus, it is the best-preserved temple in Egypt and the most important after the Temple of Karnak.
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