Dendera Temple complex ( Part 3 )

19 - The staircase to the west of the offering hall , which was used by the priests to ascend to the roof , ( with the ascending figures of the king and various priests with the shrine of the goddess carved on its right-hand wall ) gave access to the roof of the temple and a chapel , where the goddess stayed overnight before beholding the rising sun in a symbolic union with the solar disc .

Dendera Temple complex ( Part 2 )

1 - The whole complex covers some 40,000 square meters and is surrounded by a hefty mud brick enclosed wall , while its original space is amounts to 81m × 38m , and it includes many temples and religious buildings . 

Dendera Temple complex ( Part 1 )

About the temple :

• Dendera temple is one of the most important and latest temple sites of Egypt, and provides examples of a particularly rich variety of later temple features .