Akhenaten built the city along the east bank of the Nile River, setting up workshops, palaces, suburbs and temples. The Great Temple of the Aten was located just north of the Central City and, as the largest temple dedicated to the Aten, was where Akhenaten fully established the proper cult and worship of the sun-disk. [3]

The in-situ remains of one of these buildings, the Gem-pa-Aten (“the sun disk is found”), were found east of the Amun-Ra temple precinct. The temple was fronted by an open court with a colonnade of square pillars, against which rested alternating colossal statues of king Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) and his queen Nefertiti.

The Temple of Amenhotep IV was an ancient monument at Karnak in Luxor, Egypt. The structures were used during the New Kingdom, in the first four years of the 18th Dynasty reign of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten, when he still used the name Amenhotep IV.

Akhenaten built a temple named Gem-pa-aten near Amun’s precinct during the first five years of his reign. After Akhenaten built Amarna, most of his building projects in Thebes stopped.

Left: plan of Karnak with Gem-pa-Aten to the east right: plan of the Gem-pa-Aten Left: plan of Amarna (ancient Akhetaten) with the temples in yellow right: reconstruction of Amarna Left: reconstruction of the Greater Aten Temple right: reconstruction of the Lesser Aten Temple Images of Aten temples from reliefs: Reconstructed talatat …

在柏林新博物馆 （Nueus Museum） 展出的疑似为 The Gem-pa-Aten Temple 的古埃及神庙复原模型里， 很容易看到整齐的石阵， 粗大的石柱， 厚实的高墙， 二进院子轴线上的打断以及狭长的附属空间。

2018年2月27日 · On assuming power, this last ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty ordered the systematic and wholesale dismantling of the Great Aten Temple in Akhetaten and more importantly, the Gem-pa-Aten and other Aten sanctuaries in Karnak, in pursuance of his policy of damnatio memoriae against the Heretic and his family.

2015年3月19日 · Excavations in east Karnak in the 1970s revealed the location of the Gem-pa-Aten Temple, which was used to celebrate his Heb Sed Festival. In connection with this ceremony, the king’s name was changed to Akhenaten. The famous colossal statues of Akhenaten were originally from this temple.

2014年11月1日 · The seventeen-year reign of the pharaoh Amenhotep IV / Akhenaten is remarkable for the development of ideas, architecture, and art that contrast with Egypt’s long tradition.

2024年2月20日 · The Gem-pa-Aten at Karnak in Luxor, Egypt, was constructed during the first four years of the reign of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten, when he still referred to himself as Amenhotep IV. It was constructed outside the boundaries of the Precinct of Amon-Re, to the east.