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When was the Pantheon built in Rome? In the center of Rome there is an ancient building – the Temple of all the gods – the Pantheon. So what do we know from the official history? Roman legend says that once on the site of the Pantheon there was a temple dedicated to Romulus, the legendary founder and first king of Rome, and it was from this place that he ascended to heaven. And there were three temples with the conventional name "Pantheon". After two unsuccessful constructions, only on the third time, under Emperor Hadrian in 118-126 AD, they managed to build that grandiose temple that has stood for 1900 years. On May 13, 609, the pagan temple was consecrated as the Christian Church of St. Mary and the Martyrs (Santa Maria ad Martires), when the Byzantine Emperor Phocas presented the temple to Pope Boniface IV. So what is wrong with this official version? It's all wrong! For starters, no ancient period ever existed. The main question is, where did the fashion for spherical domes of churches come from? It turns out that this fashion came from Byzantium, Constantinople or the Tsar of the City - whoever is more convenient. All the medieval churches of Constantinople had spherical domes of enormous size. Let's turn to the famous Italian scientist, mathematician, writer and architect of the 15th century - Alberti, Leon Battista. It is he who is the author of the famous style of the High Renaissance - under the antique. So, few people know that the interior of the Roman Pantheon in the early 16th century was designed, built and painted by Raphael himself. At the beginning of the 16th century, from 1502 to 1525, a series of terrible floods swept across Europe, which literally washed away many cities from the face of the earth, especially in central Europe (modern Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, France, even in Muscovy). Rome got it too. That is why so much earth has been dumped around the Pantheon. It is temporarily abandoned. Sources: 1. Andrea Palladio, Four Books on Architecture, Moscow, Arkhitektura-S, 2006 2. Alberti Leon Battista. Ten Books on Architecture: In 2 Volumes. — Moscow, 1935-1937. 3. Mark Wilson Jones, Principles of Roman Architecture, New Haven 2000. 4. Howard Saalman, "The Pantheon Chests: Pattern and Number", Architectura 2, 1988 5. William L. MacDonald, The Pantheon: Design, Meaning and Posterity, London, 1976. 6. Hetland, LM Dating the Pantheon // Journal of Roman Archaeology. — 2007. Thank you for your attention! Subscribe to my alternative channel - Yuri Abarin's channel! Best regards, Yuri Abarin. When was the Pantheon built in Rome?