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Temple of Hephaestus in Athens! 3️⃣ Work began around 449 BC, but it seems to have been interrupted, probably because resources were diverted elsewhere, and the structure was not finished until about 415 BC. It is a Doric peripteral temple of Pentelic marble with six columns on the short sides and thirteen on the long sides, and it was dedicated jointly to Hephaestus, the god of the forge, and Athena Ergane, the patroness of craftsmen, which suited its location in a quarter full of metalworkers' and potters' workshops. The bronze cult statues of the two deities were made by the sculptor Alkamenes. Around 7th century, the temple was converted into the church of Saint George. The conversion involved alterations, such as the interior walls of the cella were pierced and the pronaos columns removed to open up the space, an apse was added at the eastern end, the main entrance was shifted to the west in keeping with Christian orientation, and the wooden ceiling of the cella was replaced with a barrel vault of masonry. The outer colonnade and the marble roof over the surrounding passage were left intact, which is why so much of the original structure still stands. During the Ottoman period the church was known as Agios Georgios Akamates. One popular explanation of the nickname, which means "the idle", is that the Turkish authorities permitted a liturgy there only once a year, on the feast of Saint George, so the church stood idle for the rest of the time 🤔 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the building acquired another role as the burial place for Protestant Europeans who died in Athens, since they could not be interred in Orthodox cemeteries. Travellers, scholars and diplomats were laid to rest within and around the ancient temple, among them the English classicist John Tweddell in 1799 and the young George Watson in 1810, whose epitaph was composed by Lord Byron. The last Christian service held in the building was in February 1833, a thanksgiving liturgy celebrating the arrival of King Otto and the establishment of the independent Greek kingdom. Shortly afterwards the church was deconsecrated and in 1834 the temple became the first home of the National Archaeological Museum, serving as a storehouse and exhibition space for antiquities until 1934, when it was formally declared an ancient monument, and it remains so today. #yapping

早安 ! ! ! ! ! I wish you all a very Chinese Wednesday ❤️ Interesting how among the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac, Dragon is the only fictional one. Maybe they did exist at some point during Neolithic period in China but died out 🤔 Chinese dragons are very different from the European counterpart though, it's kind of just a big snake with an unusual head

"Evil thoughts which arise against our will are accompanied by remorse, and so they soon disappear; but when they are freely chosen, they are accompanied by pleasure, and so they are hard to get rid of." -Saint Mark the Ascetic

Goood morning! I wish you all a PRODUCTIVE and FRUITFUL week ! ❤️‍🔥 One day we will all be at peace relaxing. . . but not today! Ganbatte ! ! ! !

Photos from 1859 and 1900