The Garni Temple is a pagan temple in Armenia, standing on a cliff above the Azat River gorge east of Yerevan. Built in the Greco-Roman style, with an Ionic colonnade, it is the only such temple that survives in the country. Tradition links its construction to King Tiridates I, and it was probably dedicated to a sun god or to Mithra. After Armenia adopted Christianity in the early fourth century, the temple seems to have survived as a royal summer residence rather than being destroyed. It was ruined by an earthquake in the late seventeenth century, and in the twentieth century it was rebuilt from its original stones. Today it is among the most visited sites in Armenia.
Before and after
- 43 CERome invades Britain
- c. 47 CEOrigins of London
- 48 CEPublication of Epistle to the Galatians
- 1st centuryConstruction of Pont du Gard
- 1st centuryConstruction of Garni Temple
- from 50 CE to 53 CEIberian–Armenian War
- c. 50 CEEruption of Ambrym
- 24 October 51 CEBirth of Domitian
- 18 September 53 CEBirth of Trajan
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This moment belongs to the Ancient civilizations (3,200 BCE to 500 CE), writing, cities and empires.