temple ruins
Crumbling holy site
Temple ruins are the remains of a religious structure that has fallen into decay or been destroyed.
The phrase evokes ancient sites where worship once took place—crumbling walls, fallen columns, overgrown courtyards: We explored temple ruins in the jungle.
In video games and adventure fiction, temple ruins are a common setting for discovery and danger, often containing treasures or traps.
- columnsUpright structural shafts
- altarsSacred ceremonial tables
- sacred groundLand deemed spiritually inviolable
- holy siteReligiously venerated location
- excavationAct of unearthing
Byzantine · arches · carvings · Mesopotamian · statues · lost city · pediments · pilgrimage · crumbling · overgrown · pyramids · monoliths · inscriptions · acropolis · desecration · worship · sanctuaries · archaeology
- Roman artifactsamphora, amphorae, gladius, denarius, toga
- ancient worldancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient Egypt, pyramids, pyramid
- Middle EastIraq, Baghdad, Cairo, Iran, Jordan
- ancient ruinsStonehenge, Pompeii, Colosseum, coliseum, Machu Picchu
- historic siteshistoric site, basilica, monument, fortress, monuments
- ruinsruin, crumbling walls, rubble, debris, Colosseum