Location:

The temple is located 20 KM to the south of Wadi El-Sebua and 180 kilometers south of the High Dam .

Why it was built?

It was built to dedicate to the important New Kingdom gods , Amun-Re and Re-Horakhty .

Who built it?

This temple was built at the time of the new kingdom by king Thutmaosis III and then completed by king Amenhotep II.

Explanation:

This temple was moved, together with the nearby Temple of Derr , to a higher location some 2.5 kilometers from its original site between 1964 and 1975 due to the rising waters of Lake Nasser after the construction of the High Dam ,the same as all the Nubian monument .

This Temple Consists of an entrance, Pylons, Hypostyle , and a Sanctury. Many Kings add parts to this temple. The hypostyle hall was a later addition by Tuthmosis IV . He enlarged the the Hypostyle and transforming the court into a pillared hall through the erection of twelve pillars in four transverse rows in front of the four columns, with inter-columnar walls between the outer pillars.

SetiI put his touch in some small additions, such as a large pylon with a sandstone gateway abutting against the hypostyle hall, Also from the 19th Dynasty rulers; Ramesses II , who seems to have involved himself in some way with almost every Nubian temple built prior to his reign.

However, Ramesses II's restoration of the temple has been noted as rather a poor effort, probably employing the use of local artists of inferior skill. Of course, Ramesses II also added a number of his own temples to the Nubian landscape during his reign.

Like all temples, its painting reliefs within the temple are interesting, especially the one in the high register, devoted to Tuthmosis III while worshiping Amun-Re, while at the lower register of a similar motif where Amenhotep II worshiping Re-Horakhty in the same symbolic theme.

Unfortunately, Tuthmosis IV , who broke from religious tradition in his attempts to promote Aten , had chipped away representations of Amun . These were the images that Ramesses II had restored, but with inferior workmanship.

Like many other Nubian temples, the early Christians built a church capped by a cupola, and in the process, contributed their own damage. Although Christians plastered many of the reliefs, they in fact preserved many of them, making these depictions some of the finest remaining in any Nubian temple.