Archive for the ‘Roman Temples’

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    The Roman Theaters of Lyon – Historic Culture in Contemporary Architecture
    Imagine the lively poets alluring your hearts, gladiators struggling for life, and musicians captivating your mind within an open-air theatre. Yes! All this form an integral part of the Lyon’s Roman Theater. It is a theater-cum-odeum-cum-temple complex located in a park towards the south of the Notre Dame de Fourviere Basilica. This means that not only it was a cultural centre, but was also important from the religious point of view. This magnificent masterpiece of art and culture in Lyon is the most ancient edifice in France that was constructed by Augustus from 17 to 15 B.C. What attracts visitors at the Roman Theaters of Lyon is not only its antiquity, but also the amalgam of prosperous history and culture with modern structural design and culture. Among the structures, what is unique for the Roman antiquity here is the ruined  [...]
    Posted at March 30th, 2010 in Roman Temples
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    What is the Relation between Temple of Mithras and Christianity?
    Excavated from the Walbrook Street in London at the time of restoration work after the World War II, the Temple of Mithras is a Roman ruin dedicated to the Persian god of light and sun, whom many look as the real personality of the Christ. Its present site is not its original look; rather it was located underground as a cave wherein Mithras had slain the primeval bull releasing the powers of life and vision on the planet. Acted as the foundation of the traditional Christian church holding long aisles to an altar and apse, the Temple of Mithras was shifted to its current site at Temple Court, Queen Victoria Street. History/Beliefs A local guide told me about this aspect of the Mithraic sect. In the 2nd century A.D., Mithraism posed a severe challenge to Christianity in the Roman Empire with the only men sect in which those they were  [...]
    Posted at March 29th, 2010 in Roman Temples
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