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Photo Pages: Mnajdra - Ancient Temple in Malta in Mainland
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Submitted by enkidu41 on Thursday, 25 November 2004 Page Views: 6142
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 Site Name: Mnajdra Country: Malta County: 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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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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   Mnajdra submitted by enkidu41
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.
 Mnajdra submitted by tfar
Site in Malta: Space age technology to protect stone age temples.
 Mnajdra submitted by tfar
Site in Malta: Space age technology to protect stone age temples.
 Mnajdra submitted by tfar
Site in Malta: Space age technology to protect stone age temples.
 Mnajdra submitted by tfar
Site in Mainland Malta: Mnajdra. Space age technology to protect stone age temples.
 Mnajdra submitted by tfar
Site in Malta: Progress on the shelter at Mnajdra Temples as on 8 Jan 2009. The temporary upright steel support has been removed and covers are being installed on the steel arches.
 Mnajdra submitted by tfar
Steel arches erected over Mnajdra Temples to support the protective bubble that has yet to be installed.
 Mnajdra submitted by tfar
 Mnajdra submitted by tfar
Site in Mainland Malta
A niche and neolithic spiral art from Mnajdra megalithic temple complex depicted on the new 1, 2 and 5 Euro cent coins introduced as legal tender in Malta on 01 January 2008
 Mnajdra submitted by tfar
Site in Mainland
A scale model of the south and central temples at Mnajdra. National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta, Malta
 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 (Score: 0)
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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Re: Mnajdra (Score: 0)
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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