Qualla: Temple of Sangri https://qualla.com/temple-of-sangri en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/4/temple-of-sangri-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Temple of Sangri https://qualla.com/temple-of-sangri Temple of Sangri: Introduction https://qualla.com/temple-of-sangri/ Photo credit Zde, CC BY-SA 4.0. It breaks every rule. Greek temples are rectangles, almost always elongated. The Temple of Sangri is nearly a square, 13.29 by 12.73 meters. Greek temples face east. This one faces south. Greek columns get thicker as they rise, a subtle bulge called entasis. The columns at Sangri narrow as they rise. Greek temples sit on a stepped platform called a crepidoma. This one is built directly on its smoothed foundation, no platform at all. The building was raised around 530 BC on the Cycladic island of Naxos, in farmland 1.5 kilometers south of the village of Sangri, and it was constructed entirely from Naxian marble. The whole thing was reconstructed in the 1990s using its own surviving stones, a process made possible because so many parts had survived.

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/4/temple-of-sangri-wp/swd4-temple-of-sangri-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Temple of Sangri: Demeter on a Hilltop https://qualla.com/temple-of-sangri/ Photo credit Stepanps, CC BY-SA 4.0. The temple was probably dedicated to Demeter, goddess of grain and the harvest, or possibly to her daughter Kore (Persephone). The dedication makes geographical sense. The Gyroulas plateau where the temple sits is fertile farmland in a region of Naxos famous in antiquity for agri...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/4/temple-of-sangri-wp/swd4-temple-of-sangri-demeter-on-a-hilltop.mp3 0:06 2 full Temple of Sangri: The First Marble Roof https://qualla.com/temple-of-sangri/ Photo credit Zde, CC BY-SA 3.0. The most extraordinary feature is the roof. Until this temple, Greek roofs were made of timber and clay tile. The architects at Sangri used marble for the roof itself, the oldest known marble roof in any Greek building. Seven beams, each about four meters long, supported the roof...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/4/temple-of-sangri-wp/swd4-temple-of-sangri-the-first-marble-roof.mp3 0:06 3 full Temple of Sangri: Strange Columns and Painted Capitals https://qualla.com/temple-of-sangri/ Photo credit Pvailas, CC BY-SA 4.0. The five columns of the south facade stand in antis, set between forward-projecting wall ends. The columns are in Samian style, but unfluted, smooth marble shafts rather than the typical channeled ones. They taper upward, the opposite of normal Greek practice. The capitals were n...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/4/temple-of-sangri-wp/swd4-temple-of-sangri-strange-columns-and-painted-capitals.mp3 0:06 4 full Temple of Sangri: Demolished into a Basilica https://qualla.com/temple-of-sangri/ Photo credit Mark Landon (User:Choliamb), CC BY 4.0. The temple operated through the late Roman period and would have been closed during the persecution of pagans in the 4th century AD under the Christian emperors. In the 6th century AD, the building was largely demolished and a three-naved Christian basilica was built directly on ...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/d/4/temple-of-sangri-wp/swd4-temple-of-sangri-demolished-into-a-basilica.mp3 0:06 5 full Temple of Sangri: Sixteen Hundred Pieces, Reassembled https://qualla.com/temple-of-sangri/ Photo credit Greece_location_map.svg: Lencer / derivative work: Uwe Dedering (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Nikolaos Kondoleon investigated the site in 1949. From 1976 to 1985, a joint team from the University of Athens and the Technical University of Munich, led by Vassilis Lambrinoudakis and Gottfried Gruben, conducted full excavations. They found roughly 1,600 surviving pieces of th...

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