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Location

  • Greece, Ágios Ioánnis Diakóftis
  • geo:37.400436,25.266953

Period or year

  • -476 / -88

Classification

  • temple
  • Visible

Temple of the Delians

data access 65206

The Temple of the Delians or Grand Temple is the latest and largest of the three temples dedicated to Apollo. It is a "peripteral" Doric temple with six columns on each of the narrow sides and thirteen on each of the long ones. Its construction began in 478 B.C. but stopped around the middle of the 5th century B.C., when the League' s treasury was transferred to Athens. Work was resumed later on, during the period of Delian independence, but was never actually finished. The temple was principally destroyed during the Mithridatic Wars; only the lower foundations, stylobate, and fragmented columns remain today.

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Use and reuse

Creators: Entry created by Ludwinski (2020-04-24) , last updated by T.G. Dallas (2025-04-21), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/65206
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Suggested citation: Ludwinski and Dallas, T., Temple of the Delians. https://vici.org/vici/65206, accessed 2026-11-07.