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Submitted by enkidu41 on Thursday, 25 November 2004  Page Views: 21388

Multi-periodSite Name: Mnajdra
Country: Malta Island: Mainland Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Valletta  Nearest Village: Qrendi
Latitude: 35.826760N  Longitude: 14.436410E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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htrismegistus visited on 1st Jan 2024 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Magnificent site not far from Hagar Qim, down on a footpath. These structures that are aligned with the sun and other stars make me wonder if they were made by survivors (Nephilim?) of an ancient catastrophe or flood, trying to rebuild a sense of time and a calendar. That is kind of what we would do if we lost all the technology to track time today.

emerald visited on 4th Nov 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Amazing temple complex with Hagar Qim. Through a visitors centre first and a short video

johnur visited on 26th Mar 2019 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Along with Hagar Qim, this site was reckoned by Colin Renfrew to be the oldest free standing stone building on the planet. For that reason alone it should be on the bucket list of every megalithic nut!

Catrinm visited on 17th Mar 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Access: 4 Amazing site - shame about the tent!

43559959 visited on 31st Dec 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 3

XIII visited on 1st Sep 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4

SolarMegalith visited on 21st Mar 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4

HChavez visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3

sem DrewParsons myf lizh have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.75 Ambience: 3.86 Access: 3.63

Mnajdra
Mnajdra submitted by enkidu41 : A prehistoric temple attractively situated above the cliffs. (Vote or comment on this photo)
This temple in Malta stands 500 metres to the west of Hagar Qim on the edge of the promontory facing the sea and the rocky islet of Filfla. It is built of the hard coralline limestone and has withstood the weather well and today presents a rugged appearance.

It is the most evocative and atmospheric of Malta’s temples. It is a complex with three temples centred on a near-circular forecourt. The Small Temple to north-east is a simple trefoil in design with restored wall and a torba floor. It has an unusual triple entrance which has been copied on larger scale in the next temple. The Middle Temple is, in fact, the last to have been built. It is a 4-apse and niche design and is unusual in having an enormous 3 metre high porthole slab, now broken, as its main entrance, though with a second doorway beside it. Its apses have walls of orthostats of modest height topped by horizontal courses. There is an engraving of a temple façade on the first taller orthostats to the left of the passages to the inner apses. These are similar in each having a tall trilithon altar at the centre and a pillar-supported altar on the left. The Lower Temple ahs a largely intact façade and bench, th former extended by a free-standing wall. Through its entrance is a porthole niche to the left framed in a trilithon and two strangely tapered orthostats on either side, all ornamented with dotted decoration. Through the porthole can be seen an altar supported on a central pillar. In the right hand apse there are a porthole doorway at the top of a flight of steps giving access to a intramural chamber, an oracle hole opening from that chamber, and another oracle hole in a rebated recess communicating with a chamber which can be communicated from the back and outside the temple. Within the first side chamber is an altar on a double-hourglass shaped pillar.

As at Hagar Qim there is a group of small subsidiary chambers to the east of the temples. Its function is not known.

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Mnajdra submitted by enkidu41 : An aerial view of the two neolithic temples of Mnajdra. Although side by side the temples are not connected and each has its own entrance. 500 metres up the path shown leading off in the top left hand corner is the temple of Hagar Qim. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Mnajdra submitted by DrewParsons : The wonderful pecked stone decorations on an internal entrance at Mnajdra. April 2000. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Mnajdra submitted by enkidu41 : A prehistoric temple attractively situated above the cliffs. This shot shows the decorated niche and pillar altars of the lower temple. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Mnajdra submitted by DrewParsons : September 2000 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Mnajdra submitted by enkidu41 : Plan of the MnajdraTemples. (Reproduced from 'The Copper Age Temples of Hagar Qim and Mnajdra'). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Mnajdra submitted by Jon : Pedestal altar. (1 comment)

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Mnajdra submitted by Jon : Mnajdra pedestal alter viewed through porthole stone

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Mnajdra submitted by 43559959 : Mnajdra, site in Mainland Malta

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Mnajdra submitted by DrewParsons : September 2000

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Mnajdra submitted by DrewParsons

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Mnajdra submitted by Jon : Temple carving

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Mnajdra submitted by 43559959 : Mnajdra, site in Mainland Malta

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Mnajdra submitted by ShamrockStone : Mnajdra Temples

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Mnajdra submitted by sem : Site in Mainland Malta Mnajdra is built from Coralline and the much softer Globigerina limestone. Could the "pock-marking" on these interior Coralline megaliths be an attempt to emulate the weathering on the Globigerina stones of the temple's exterior? (1 comment)

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Mnajdra submitted by sem : Site in Mainland Malta This engraving showing a group of trilithons with layers of corbelled stone atop them, is often cited as evidence for the Maltese temples having roofs.

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Mnajdra submitted by SolarMegalith : Entrances - view from the east. The megalithic temple complex in Mnajdra belongs to the largest and best preserved in Malta (photo taken on March 2013).

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Mnajdra submitted by SolarMegalith : Curved facade in Mnajdra temples. One of the temples belongs to Ggantija phase of the Temple Period, the other two ones to Tarxien phase (photo taken on March 2013).

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Mnajdra submitted by tfar : Site in Malta: Space age technology to protect stone age temples.

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Mnajdra submitted by tfar : Site in Mainland A scale model of the south and central temples at Mnajdra. National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta, Malta

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Mnajdra submitted by LizH : This stone has a pecked pattern across part of its surface. Lower down the pecking appears unfinished - or perhaps it is some decoration we don't really understand. The orthostat is on the east side of the east temple at Mnajdra.

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Re: Mnajdra by myf on Saturday, 31 January 2009
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Condition:3
Ambience:3
Access:4
Accuracy:4
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Re: Mnajdra by tfar on Tuesday, 31 July 2007
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Re: Mnajdra by tfar on Tuesday, 24 July 2007
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The external walls of Mnajdra Temple complex can be seen on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhelGH5Gh6A
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Re: Mnajdra by Anonymous on Friday, 09 February 2007
mnajdra and hagar qim are the most important megalithic temples in the world,and should be the most famous of all time. Stonehenge which is so famous in the world does not even start besides them.We should be proud with them.It's a pity we don't appriciate these goldmines malta have.If they were in England they would have made them as famous as the piramids.
Charlie borg
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Re: Mnajdra by Anonymous on Saturday, 19 November 2005
We need information on the mnajdra megalithic temple on
malta. Can you find out how much higher the floor of the middle temple is than the
floor of the temple to the left; how tall the standing stones are which
line the two apses of the middle temple; and how tall are any other gateway
or entrance standing stones in the three temples?
i hope this not bothersome for you. i thank you innerglory@rediffmail.com
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