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Multi-periodSite Name: MnajdraCountry: Malta Island: Mainland Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Valletta Nearest Village: Qrendi
Latitude: 35.826760N Longitude: 14.436410E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no 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
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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