Deir el-Bahri:Temple of Hatshepsut
Temple of Hatshepsut is the best preserved of the three complexes. He called on people Djeser Djeseru "sacreds holy" stands the Temple of Hatshepsut and the cuttings is one of the features most impressive in the West Bank.
Situated directly on the rock face of Deir el-Bahari Bay rock, and not only on the temple and chanted lines surrounding slopes design, but it seems a natural extension of these rocks.
The temple was little more than a ruin when first excavated in 1891, but it has led to a lot of success in reconstruction. The temple took 15 years to build and change during that period. Approach to the temple was more than 121 feet wide road, lined with Sphinx, which led from the valley of the columns. These towers are gone
It consists of three separate courts by wide verandahs, and perhaps tradition of funerary complex of Mentuhotep earlier in the south. These terraces were connected by ladders up, and is bounded by walls of limestone dress. Hatshepsut recorded that they were built the temple as the "garden and my father Amun, and the first court, which held a one-time exotic trees and shrubs brought from Puntland.
The porch is decorated on the north side of the landscape of the marsh area in Lower Egypt, and on the south side, with scenes depicting the extraction and transfer of large obelisks in Upper Egypt. Corridor of the second cut that was recorded on the south side with relief scenes of the exploits of soldiers in the Trade Mission to Puntland famous, and on the north side of this section depicts scenes of the birth of the concept of divine Hatshepsut, daughter of Amon himself.
Site Deir el-Bahari was traditionally associated with Hathor, the chief god of the cemetery a good, long sacred to the gods. On the south side of the gallery is to complete the second Hathor Chapel, in the beginning with private entrance. It contains the chapel vestibule with the characteristic Hathor-headed columns, and columns of the hall 12 columns, and interior rooms, and decorated with scenes of different Hatshepsut and Hathor. At the north end of the colonnade itself chapel is slightly smaller than Anubis, again with 12 Hall of columns and interior rooms.
The upper terrace has a balcony entrance is decorated with statues of King Osiris, female, and sculptures of Hatshepsut any look like Osiris, and before each column, despite the fact that most of these statues have been destroyed. Terrace open to the courtyard surrounding the columns on the left, with a small church dedicated to the true worship, and the right to worship at the Chapel of the sun, with a public hearing and the altar.
Eighteen cult niche, nine from each side, surrounded the sanctuary of rock Amun, which was the center of the entire complex. During the Amarna destroyed, and many images of Amun
At the time of Ptolemy the campus has been expanded to include communities of the architects of Amenhotep son of Hapu, who oversaw the work of Amenhotep III, Imhotep, who designed the Step Pyramid of King Djoser at Saqqara. Ace in the 7th century, the temple area at the site of the Coptic monastery, which is the Arab name of the Deir el-Bahri is derived.