Petra Tour: Great Temple
The largest freestanding architectural complex in Petra did not serve religious worship, but was built as a representative royal reception hall, up from the end of the 1st century BC or beginning of the 1st century AD.
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View from the north. On the left, the area of the once luxurious garden with water pool and island pavilion (paradeisos). On the far right, the Temenos Gate on the Colonnaded Street. Behind the 'Great Temple' and the paradeisos rises the Katute Hill with the excavated wall remains of a residential quarter.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder, Universes in Universe
The largest freestanding architectural complex in Petra did not serve religious worship, but was built as a representative royal reception hall, up from the end of the 1st century BC or beginning of the 1st century AD.