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Maison Carrée
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ancient Roman temple in Nîmes, southern France
Key facts
- Type
- Roman temple
- Architectural style
- Roman
- Location
- Nîmes , France
- Completed
- 2 A.D (2024 years ago)
- Inaugurated
- 4–7 AD
- Height
- 17.1m
- Official name
- The Maison Carrée of Nîmes
- Criteria
- iv
- Designated
- 2023 (45th session )
- Unesco region
- Europe
via Wikipedia infobox
~5 min read
Encyclopedic overview
The Maison carrée ( French pronunciation: [mɛzɔ̃ kaʁe]; French for "square house") is an ancient Roman temple in Nîmes, southern France; it is one of the best-preserved Roman temples to survive in the territory of the former Roman Empire. It is a mid-sized Augustan provincial temple of the Imperial cult, a caesareum.
The Maison carrée inspired the neoclassical Église de la Madeleine in Paris, St. Marcellinus Church in Rogalin, Poland, and in the United States the Virginia State Capitol, which was designed by Thomas Jefferson, who had a stucco model made of the Maison carrée while he was minister to France in 1785.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maison Carrée” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.