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It's surprising that any part of the temple survived at all, given the early Christians' destruction of "pagan" temples.
by incompatible 9y ago
It's surprising that any part of the temple survived at all, given the early Christians' destruction of "pagan" temples.
- moomin 9y agoThat’s a vast oversimplification. Go to Egypt and you’ll find a large number of Egyptian temples adapted to Christian use.
- bhaak 9y agoGiven that even old pagan temples got repurposed (like for example the Pantheon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome ), I don't think that statement holds in a general sense. There might have been local destruction by Christians but not a systematic destruction lead by the church. Often, old buildings were used as resource for new buildings as the common people didn't regard those old buildings as anything else than a quarry.