EGYPTIAN TEMPLE 1504 BC to 1070 BC THE VALLEY

OF KINGS

NEW KINGDOM
1550 to 1069 BCE
18th dynasty

National wealth & renewed interest in monumental buildings

Unity of plan
Composed of series of
parts.
Built in subsequent
periods.
New Kingdom Cult Temples
Introduction:

The borrowed elements include:

Long approaches
Guardian sphinxes
Colonnaded vestibules and inner courts
Darkening & mysterious shrines
Intricate linear progression of constructed space.

The New Kingdom temples allow a series of

experiences passing in stages from openness and
light in the exterior to interior closure and darkness

This feeling was deliberate as only the Pharaoh and

priest were allowed into the inner part of temples.
Many examples of the New Kingdom temples are
found at Karnak and Luxor, all in Thebes.
An avenue of sphinxes connects the two sites
 City of 100 gates
God of fertility

4 Temples 2 Temples

SOUTHERN Sanctuary
Old Kingdom
New Kingdom

Location
Axis
60 acres

Built over 1500 years

Dedicated to God AMUN

(main temple /
inner temple)

Surrounded small temples

procession way
housing for priests

are placed inside a fortified wall

Thutmose I (phase 1)
Thutmose I (phase 2)

Hatshepsut

Thutmose III (phase 1)

Thutmose III (phase 2)
 Plan of the Restored
Middle Kingdom Temple
Plan of Karnak during
the reign of Tuthmosis I
Plan of Tuthmosis II's forecourt
"THE SOUTHERN SANCTUARY."