Garni Temple
Ruins · Armenia
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 50
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 40.112, 44.729
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Храм Гарни — армянский античный храм, посвящённый богу солнца Михру, построенный в I веке н.
History
The Garni Temple is a classical colonnaded structure in the village of Garni, in central Armenia, around 30 km (19 mi) east of Yerevan. Built in the Ionic order, it is the best-known structure and symbol of pre-Christian Armenia. Considered an eastern outpost of the Greco-Roman world, it is the only largely preserved Hellenistic building in the former Soviet Union.