Great Jupiter Temple
The complex consisted of four main sections: the front hall, followed by the revolving lobby, the large hall and the temple.
The gallery consists of a structure that is like a fortified gate. At its two ends, there are two towers with a gallery. It is built on a row of twelve columns of granite. It has a large staircase surrounded by a semi-circular structure with stone benches. The gallery was decorated with statues, and in its inner wall there are three doors, including spiral staircases that ascend to the ceiling of the gallery and the hexagon of the gun that follows.
The three front hall doors lead to the revolving lobby, an open courtyard surrounded by six corridors, on 30 granite columns. At the end of the fourth or beginning of the fifth century, the ceiling of the lobby was decorated with a gold-plated brass dome, after being converted into a church named after the Virgin Mary.
The large lobby is 134 meters long and 112 meters wide and contains the most important and most sacred religious structures, and in the second century the place of the passages that were erected in the same place in the previous eras was replaced. Built on an artificial hill, the accumulation of housing levels that followed the site, the engineers reinforced it, fearing that some of its parts would collapse or slip under the weight of the loads it was supposed to carry. This consolidation process was the creation of huge cellars to limit its eastern, northern and southern sides, while the temple's temple was restricted from the west. In addition to this function, these cellars were to use underground corridors, warehouses and stables, while their backs were used to carry the hallways and canoes surrounding the lobby. They are twelve Ioannas, four of them in the shape of a half circle and eight in the shape of a rectangle, all of which are adorned with mascots inhabited by statues.
In the center of the grand lobby there are two main buildings, one of which is the altar, which is closest to the temple, and the other is a huge tower with only some of its lower pillars left. It is the oldest building in the lobby, dating back to the first half of the first century AD, to the time when the Great Temple was being built. It seems to have been a giant platform mounted by pilgrims to perform certain duties or to observe what is going on around them. On both sides of the tower are two columns, one of red granite and the other of gray granite. The tower and the altar next to it are surrounded by two water basins. These monuments were destroyed at the end of the fourth century to be replaced by the Church of the Emperor Theodosius.
The colonnade, then the hexagonal lobby and the large lobby, leads to the threshold of the Great Temple, that is, after passing through a number of stages that were imposed by the ancient creeds. The structure is 88 meters long and 48 meters wide. It was built on a large terrace 20 meters above the roof of the neighboring city and eight meters above the lobby floor. It was built with huge stones, including three stones in its western wall. One of these stones is 20 meters tall and 4 meters high and 3 meters thick. He ascends to the temple with a great staircase with three terraces. It was surrounded by a gallery of fifty-four columns topped by an ornate frieze adorned with bull and black heads.
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