Temple of Apollo in Didim Turkey

The temple was completed around 550 BC. The temple originally had 122 columns, only 3 are still intact.
info below from official website aydin.ktb.gov.tr/TR-64419/apo...
It is located in the center of Yenihisar. Didyma is not actually an ancient city, but a sacred place. Didyma is a prophecy center with a connection with the sacred path from Miletus. Herodotus was the first written source of Didyma. Herodotus BC In the 600s, King of Egypt II. Nekho and Lydian King Kroisos transported the offerings of offering voics to the Temple of Apollo in Didyma. Apollo, the sacred place of Apollo, which was very famous in archaeological times, was by Persians. It was burned in 494.
B.C. In 311, the revitalization and the reconstruction of the temple begins. During the period of the Seleukos, the temple was changed and the sizes were enlarged. Artemis, Zeus, Aphrodite temples and some other buildings, the construction of the Roman period is understood from the inscriptions around the temple, which were captured. M.S. Before 250, the temple began to lose its importance and A.D. By order of Theodosios in 385, he was completely lost. With the spread of Christianity, a church was built in the adyton of the temple, which was already not finished.
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