Queen Hatshepsut Funerary Temple
Today its known as the Temple of Deir El-Bahri which means in Arabic the Temple of the Northern Monastery.
Queen hatshepsut funerary temple. The Temple was built to commemorate the achievements of the great Queen Hatshepsut 18th Dynasty and as a funerary Temple for her as well as a sanctuary of the god Amon Ra. After the queens death her successor Thutmose III destroyed her statues to obliterate her memory. Built for the Eighteenth dynasty Pharaoh Hatshepsut it is located beneath the cliffs at Deir el Bahari on the west bank of the Nile near the Valley of the Kings.
Hatshepsut starts a program of aggressive trade with the outside world. Kings buried in the temple. The real peculiarity is that unlike almost all the pharaohs Hatshepsut was a woman.
In the 7th century AD it was named after a Coptic monastery in the area known as the Northern Monastery. Duration of building the temple. She commissions her architect Senenmut to build an impressive funerary temple on t.
It lies directly across the Nile from Karnak Temple the main sanctuary of the god Amun. The Temple was built to commemorate the achievements of the great Queen Hatshepsut 18th Dynasty and as a funerary Temple for her as well as a sanctuary of the god Amon Ra. To know more about the history and mysteries of Hatshepsut Temple.
Between the 7 th and 22 nd years of Hatshepsuts reign. Cleopatra might be more famous but Hatshepsut born a royal princess during the New Kingdom period of Ancient Egypt was the. It was built for Queen Hatshepsut who broke Egyptian tradition by becoming the first female Phar.
A funerary temple was typically a place for burial for a person like Queen Hatshepsut. Visit Deir el-Bahari to explore the funerary temple of the powerful and successful female pharaoh. Queen Hatshepsut was interested in building the temple and transferring all her belongings to the temple is a destination and a paradise for the god Amun as was an ancient belief in the Egyptian civilization but she set up other places for the other gods where Hathor and anubis were found to make it a funerary temple for her and her parents.