Temple of Hephaestus
The Temple of Hephaestus or Hephaisteion, is a well-preserved Greek temple dedicated to Hephaestus; it remains standing largely intact today. It is a Doric peripteral temple, and is located at the north-west side of the Agora of Athens, on top of the Agoraios Kolonos hill.
Photo: U.S. Department of State, Public domain.- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: ancient Greek temple in Athens
- Also known as: “Hefajsteon”, “Hephaestion temple”, “Hephaisteion”, “Héphaïsteion”, “Hephaisteion temple”, “Kuil hephaestus”, “Kuil Hephaestus dan Athena Ergane”, “Teml Hephaestus”, “Teml Hephaistos”, “Temple d’Héphaïstos”, “Temple of Hephaestus in Athens (Wikicommons)”, “Tezejon”, “Theseion”, “Théseion”, “Théséion”, “Thesejon”, “Theseum”, “Thesseion”, “Thissio”, “Άη Γιώργης ο Ακαμάτης”, “Ηφαιστείον”, “Θησείο”, “Θησείον”, “Гефестейон”, “Тесейон”, “معبدهيفيستوس”, “ஹெப்பஸ்தஸ் கோவில்”, and “赫菲斯托斯神廟”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: Parthenon and New Bouleuterion.
Parthenon
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Asteroskopeio and Thiseio.
Asteroskopeio
Neighborhood
Photo: Dimboukas, Public domain.
Temple of Hephaestus
- Categories: ancient Greek temple, archaeological site, building, tourism, ruins, and historic site
- Location: Athens, Athens Prefecture, Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
37.9756° or 37° 58′ 32″ north
Longitude
23.72141° or 23° 43′ 17″ east
Elevation
64 metres (210 feet)
Wheelchair access
no
Open location code
8G95XPGC+6H
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OpenStreetMap feature
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historic=ruins
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Temple of Hephaestus” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “معبد هيفايستوس”
- Arabic: “معبد هيفيستوس”
- Armenian: “Հեփեստոսի տաճար”
- Basque: “Hefestion”
- Belarusian: “Храм Гефеста”
- Bulgarian: “Храм на Хефест”
- Catalan: “temple d’Hefest”
- Catalan: “Temple d’Hefest”
- Chinese: “赫淮斯托斯神庙”
- Chinese: “赫淮斯托斯神廟”
- Chinese: “赫菲斯托斯神庙(火神廟)”
- Czech: “Héfaisteion”
- Czech: “Hefaistův chrám”
- Czech: “Héfaistův chrám”
- Dutch: “Tempel van Hephaistos”
- Esperanto: “Templo de Hefesto”
- Finnish: “Hefaistoksen temppeli”
- French: “Héphaïstéion”
- Galician: “Templo de Hefesto”
- German: “Tempel des Hephaistos”
- Greek: “Ναός Ηφαίστου”
- Greek: “Ναός του Ηφαίστου”
- Hebrew: “מקדש הפייסטוס”
- Hungarian: “Héphaiszteion”
- Indonesian: “Kuil Hefaistos”
- Italian: “Tempio di Efesto”
- Japanese: “ヘーパイストス神殿”
- Korean: “헤파이스토스 신전”
- Latin: “Hephaesti Templum”
- Lithuanian: “Hefaisto šventykla”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hefaisteion”
- Norwegian: “Hefaisteion”
- Persian: “معبد هفائستوس”
- Polish: “Hefajstejon”
- Polish: “Świątynia Hefajstosa”
- Portuguese: “Templo de Hefesto”
- Romanian: “Templul lui Hefaistos”
- Russian: “Храм Гефеста”
- Serbian: “Хефестов храм”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hefestov hram”
- Spanish: “Hefestión”
- Swedish: “Hefaistos tempel i Aten”
- Tamil: “எப்பெசுடசு கோயில்”
- Tamil: “ஹெப்பீஸ்தஸ் கோயில்”
- Turkish: “Hefaistos Tapınağı”
- Turkish: “Hephaistos Tapınağı”
- Ukrainian: “Храм Гефеста”
- Urdu: “ہیفیستوس کا مندر”
- Welsh: “Hephaisteion”
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