Luxor - Temple of Luxor

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Opposite the temple was a granite chapel built by Tuthmosis III. During Amenophis IV's religious revolution the figures and names of Amun were obliterated and a sanctuary of the Aten, the Sun, was built near the temple. When Tutankhamun moved the royal residence back to Thebes he had the walls of the colonnade embellished with reliefs, in which Horemheb later substituted his own names for those of his predecessor. The Temple of the Aten was destroyed, and in the reign of Sethos I the reliefs of Amun were restored. Ramesses II, the great builder, also extended the Temple of Luxor, adding a new colonnaded court at the north end, usurping Tuthmosis III's chapel and replacing the old reliefs by new ones, and erected a massive pylon with its doorway adjoining Tuthmosisill's chapel. These later structures involved a slight displacement of the axis of the temple, and increased the total length to 583ft/260m. Thereafter the temple underwent little alteration. In Christian times it was converted into a church.