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Amada (Hassaya) Temple
Amada (Hassaya, Hassaia or Ammadon) Temple in Nubia was built by order of Pharaoh Thuthmosis III (18th Dynasty) and added to by other Pharaohs of the 18th and 19th dynastys. The temple was dedicated th Amun-Re and Re-Horakhty. Amada - Hassaya Temple was moved 2 miles west to avoid flooding by the Aswan High Dam. Purists will be pleased that the strange looking cupola on the roof in these pictures, a product of the early Christians, has been removed.
The Temple of Amada (Hassaya),
by David Roberts, 1838
Excerpt from: Travels in Nubia by John Lewis Burckhardt
A Journey along the Banks of the Nile
Published in 1819. Adapted for AscendingPassage.com, 2006.
Amada - Hassaya Temple
March 25th, 1813.
At one hour and a half from where
I slept, is a place near the river called
Hassaya (Amada), where a
village formerly stood; here are the ruins of a small temple. The
pronaos is sixteen paces in length, and consists of three rows of
square columns, four in each row, and two feet square, with a row
of four round ones next the cella; the whole are without capitals.
The Temple of Amada (Hassaya),
by François Chrétien Gau, 1819
The hieroglyphics are badly sculptured; the (scarab) beetle is the figure
most frequently met with on the columns. The pronaos is encompassed
by a wall, which fills up the intervals between the outer rows of
columns. The cella is entered from the pronaos through a narrow
chamber; on either side of the cella is an apartment, equal to it
in depth, but narrower; there is no adytum. The walls of the cella
have a thick coat of plaster, on which are paintings of Greek
saints. The temple is interesting on account of its preservation,
being almost entire; but the sands have accumulated considerably
round its walls and columns.
Cross section of The Temple of Hassaya / Amada,
by François Chrétien Gau, 1819
There is a well paved terrace on the
top of the cella; and the Greeks had built a cupola over the
pronaos. I believe this to be the temple mentioned by Norden, as
situated near Amada. About twenty yards distant from it, towards
the river, are the foundations of another stone edifice.
Hassaya Amada Temple
excerpt from: Travels in Nubia
by John Lewis Burckhardt, published in 1819
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