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  • By sue_stone on February 12, 2005
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  • Hypostyle Hall at night - Luxor Temple - Luxor
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    By the time we made it to Luxor Temple we were pretty exhausted - we had been on the go since early that day - balloon flight, temples, tombs....luckily the temple was beautiful enough to hold our attention and raise our flagging spirits! We arrived just before sunset, and entered through the fabulous front pylon to explore inside. There are lots of impressive columns in this temple - there are the large columns in the Colonnade of Amenhotep III, and then the equally impressive Hypostyle Hall where there are 32 columns. As the sunset over Luxor, the temple was lit up and the lights bouncing off the columns really added to our experience here.

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  • Address: East Bank, Luxor
  • Directions: Luxor Temple is on the Corniche in the central part of the town, opposite the ferry dock.
  • Website: http://www.egyptsites.co.uk/upper/luxoreast/luxor/luxor.html

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    Luxor Temple: A Mosque in a Temple!!?
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  • By sue_stone on February 12, 2005
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    One of the really unique things about Luxor Temple is that it contains a mosque! For an extended period of time (a long long time ago), the Temple was buried beneath the streets and houses of Luxor. At one stage the mosque of Sufi Shaykh Yusuf Abu al-Hajjaj was built over it. When the Temple was eventually re-discovered and uncovered, the mosque was preserved, and today it is one of the highlights of a visit to the Temple. As you walk through the Temple, look up to your left and you will see this "door", which will help you to get a feel for how much of the Temple was buried at the time the mosque was built.

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  • Address: East Bank, Luxor
  • Directions: Luxor Temple is on the Corniche in the central part of the town, opposite the ferry dock.
  • Website: http://www.egyptsites.co.uk/upper/luxoreast/luxor/luxor.html

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    Luxor Temple: The Pylons
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  • By Jeca011 on June 13, 2004
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    The Pylons
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    The large pylon front, a kind of triumphal entrance, is about 64 m across. Two granite colossi of Ramses II on a throne (about 15 m high) frame the entrance. Originally four standing statues of Ramses II also were placed in front of the pylon. In addition, an 23 m obelisk stands at the ceremonial entrance.This obelisk's twin is in the Place de la Concorde in Paris. The pylon has four vertical indentations for the placement of flagstaffs. Inscriptions on the pylon cite Ramses II as the builder of the temple, even though he is only responsible for the pylon and the first courtyard. Bas-reliefs on the front depict scenes of military campaigns, specifically Ramses' battles with the Hittites in the fifth year of his reign.

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  • Updated By Diana75 on March 2, 2006
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    Luxor Temple is located on the East Bank in the center of Luxor, separated from the Nile by Luxor's Corniche. The temple was built as the secret settlement of the Lord of Gods - namely "Amoun" who took the figure of "Mein", the God of Fertility and Reproduction in Egyptian mythology. The Luxor temple was built by Amenhotep III in the 18th Dynasty. Once every year, a great feast was held to transport the statue of god Amoun from the Karnak temple through the river to visit Luxor temple, which was called "The Southern Harem". The temple is marked by its rear rooms with prominent inscriptions, and the hall of columns whose crowns represent the figure of lotus flower. King Ramsis II added a front yard made of the beautiful sandstone. He also surrounded it with a row of columns, decorated it with statues made of granite or Aswan stone, and established in front of the temple a great palace ornamented by two granite obelisks, one of which was transferred to Concord square in Paris in 1836.


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    Luxor Temple: Beyond the Hypostyle Hall
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  • By Jeca011 on June 13, 2004
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    Beyond the Hypostyle Hall there are several smaller rooms, the central one was used later as a Christian church. This area, still with some of the original roof, was the most sacred area of the temple and had a gold-plated statue of the god Amon as well as a birth room with reliefs referring to the divine birth of Amenophis III.

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  • By Jim_Eliason on January 13, 2007
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    Second only to Karnak in size, this temple in downtown Luxor is a definite must see site in Egypt. It was begun by Amenophis III in the 1400's BC but owes much of this greatest works to the most famous pharaoh, Ramses II. A 3 KM avenue lined with Sphinxes once extended from this temple to Karnak.

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    Luxor Temple: Colossi of Ramses
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  • By catkin on May 25, 2004
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  • Colossi of Ramses and the obelisk - Luxor
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    The temple is guarded by the colossi of Ramses. Originally there were 6 statues of Ramses II here, four seated and two standing, along with two obelisks. Two statues and one obelisk were removed, the latter now standing in the Place de la Concorde in Paris.

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    Luxor Temple: A wonderful guide to the history of the world
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  • By ATXtraveler on May 23, 2004
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  • Luxor Temple in the afternoon - Luxor
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    Even on the 8th day of our trip to Egypt, one of the things I was truly amazed at is the craft done by people over 5000 years ago. It is unimaginable to think about how long it took the Egyptians to build all of this, but the Luxor Temple and its connection to the Temple at Karnak is truly amazing. 2.5 miles seperates the two, but they are linked together by a row of ram guardian.

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  • By ATXtraveler on May 23, 2004
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    The Luxor temple is 20 Egyptian pounds to enter... that is about 3.50 US, but don't think of this as an entrance fee, but rather an investment in preserving the heritage of one of the oldest civilizations in the world. Enjoy... and just think, even if you do not like it... McDonald's is right around the corner!

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    This temple was dedicated to the thebes triad: Amon (king of Gods), Mut (his wife) and Khnum (their son, the moon God). The temple has a more unified plan than some Egyptian temples because it was essentially the work of only three pharaohs: Amenophis III, Tutankhamen, and Ramses II. Each new addition was situated in front of the older section. It has the typical Egyptian temple features: an entrance pylon, courtyards with porticoes, a hypostyle hall and at the end of the longitudinal axis, a sacred area, with the sanctuary, a birth house, and other small rooms, not accessible to the ancient public. In ancient times a 3,5 kilometers long avenue of sphinxes connected the two temples; originally these sphinxes had ram heads (Amon's symbol) but they were replaced with human-headed sphinxes in the 30th Dynasty. The temple is about 250 m long and about 65 m height.

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