Abu Sir

Area is located south of Giza, Abusir and northern Saqqara region name was derived from the word "Boo Auxerre", meaning "place of God, Auxerre," and is famous for the area of ​​Abu Sair, with all its sun temples of the kings of the Fifth Dynasty pyramids and some of the kings of this family and the Pyramids:

Pyramid and the pyramid of a group Sahora Air Kara and a group F pyramid pyramid of Ra and Ra Ni and walk, and will be displayed to the sun temple of King Ne secret of Ra:

Temple of the Sun (Ra Ni walk):

The sun temple of King Ne secret of Ra as one of the models of temples God has appeared in the construction of temples to the sun god Ra from the Fifth Dynasty after Ola Chan god Ra since the Fourth Dynasty and the back of the word "Ra" in the names of most of the kings such as the paddle of Ra, Khafre and Mnkawora.

And tells us about Cetkar Papyrus and the onset of kings loyal to the sun god Ra and the beginning of this family of five, and how the King Hbsskaf Stay away from Giza. And has not built his tomb in the form of a pyramid because the pyramid shape symbolizes the sun god Ra, and chose Saqqara where his tomb was built as a terrace called "Pharaoh's bench."

The Temple of the Sun planning differed from the other temples because the worship of the sun requires that the lead in broad daylight and it is not necessary to the existence of a closed room Kkds Holies where the statue of the god is placed.

Temple of the Sun consists of the following architectural elements:

1 - Temple Valley: who served as the entrance to a luxury leads to the path leading to the temple, and the Temple of Wadi deviates from the axis of the temple, and pays tribute to this temple on a high base to protect it from flooding, and in front of the facade and sides of the interface extends the roof on the columns of granite, adorned Dhlizan perpendicular Tktnfema halls small and leads him to the surface.

2 - way upward: The road had been more than a hundred meters in length, and was sheltered and light enters it from the holes in the ceiling.

3 - Temple: It was built on the base rising from the valley and the entrance to the temple is located on the axis of the temple is a building surmounted by a cornice of Egypt, featuring a lobby walls long inscriptions were then shown a cross-sectional lobby leading to the temple courtyard.

Description of the temple:

The temple occupies an area: 110 m length and presentation of 80 m and is surrounded by a high wall thick, and in the back of the temple a huge base rises about 20 meters and is topped by an obelisk large a beam of sunlight, and the obelisk rises about 36 m, one of the limestone, the summit covered with plates of gold, so gleaming surfaces sun, and was in front of base of the obelisk table offering a huge, and to the right of the courtyard altar above the home land of the yard a little addition on the altar of another small-right base of the obelisk, and to the left of the base of the obelisk there was limited small decorated their walls with scenes representing the symbols of formation of the temple and the celebration of the Jubilee Royal.

And along the walls of the East and South of the temple there are two corridors Taiwilan eastern path leads to a group of stores, which is located north of the altar the Great, while the southern corridor ends to the base of the obelisk, and out of the temple in the south side dug in the rock hole big boat length 30 m denotes a compound evening which horses to insist that the sun god "Ra" in which every night trip in the world, the other from west to east.