Karnak

Karnak the largest and most important temples located in the Luxor, the temple is devoted to the god Amon, who started the first pharaoh Citty I and Ramses II completed and, in addition to the temples, which have built up to the first century BC Temple of Karnak is the so-called fortified village in the northern part of the city Tiba (Luxor), due to the famous Karnak, in fact, a group of temples built by the beginning of the eleven`s family in 2134 BC, when it was a good center of Egyptian religion .This temples are surrounded by walls are linked to each other through the corridors of the monolithic statues guarded by two rows of the Sphinx.

Amon temple covers an area of 140 square meters, a huge hall with a roof on a mobile column of 122, up more than 21 meters, lined up in the ranks of 9 rows, this is not the inscriptions on the salient poles and giant portals, and Obelisks Places of worship is the greatest in history, and how it does not work when the building andconstruction was continuing for a period in 1500 years, and called this name after the Islamic conquest .. Karnak, where the place means fortress or stronghold, and the entrance to the temple is full of statues by the animal was a symbol of the strength of the pharaohs.