Temples of Demeter

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thumb|upright=1.5|Remains of the Eleusinion, seen from the southeast. The platform at left is the northern end of the Temple of Triptolemus. The masonry wall in the background is the Post-Herulian Wall, which runs along the western boundary of the sanctuary. Eleusinion (), also called the City Eleusinion () was a sanctuary on the lower part of the north slope of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, dedicated to Demeter and Kore (Persephone). It was the central hub of Eleusinian Mysteries within Athens and the starting point for the annual procession to Eleusis, in the northwest of Attica. Religiou

ancient sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace, Greece

thumb|247x247px|General view of the site of the Telesterion in Eleusis thumb|200x200px|Another View of Telesterion (Initiation Hall), Center for the Eleusinian Mysteries, [[Eleusis]] The Telesterion ("Initiation Hall" from Gr. τελείω, "to complete, to fulfill, to consecrate, to initiate") was a great hall and sanctuary in Eleusis, one of the primary centers of the Eleusinian Mysteries. The hall had a fifty-five yard square roof that could cover three-thousand people, but no one revealed what happened during these events beyond there being "something done, something said, and something shown".

ancient altar in Athens, Greece

a temple of Demeter in Naxos, Greece

building in Rome, Italy