# Templo de Garni, Armenia, 2016-10-02, DD 03

- By: Diego Delso
- Date: 2016-10-02
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Templo_de_Garni,_Armenia,_2016-10-02,_DD_03.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/b/b9/Templo_de_Garni%2C_Armenia%2C_2016-10-02%2C_DD_03.jpg/1920px-Templo_de_Garni%2C_Armenia%2C_2016-10-02%2C_DD_03.jpg
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The Temple of Garni (lit. "pagan temple of Garni") is a classical Hellenistic temple in Garni, Armenia. It is perhaps the best-known structure and symbol of pre-Christian Armenia and was probably built by king Tiridates I in the first century AD as a temple to the sun god Mihr. According to some scholars it was not a temple but a tomb and thus survived the universal destruction of pagan structures. It collapsed in a 1679 earthquake and reconstructed between 1969 and 1975.