A the same as in many other religions Egyptian temples were the representation of the house of God, but rather than understood as a simple dwelling, the temple was to be virtually indestructible, since this place was the residence of the immortals. The first buildings, which were carried out as an imitation of those that were intended to house men, were quickly discarded and replaced by others that were built with rocks and more resistant materials that would last much longer.
This building was built to house the image of the god and also as a place where the priests performed rites and other ceremonies. A difference with respect to the later religions was the fact that they were not places destined only to the realization of cults but an area to house the god and in fact the people were not allowed to enter more than certain dependencies outside it.
The temples were the only buildings built with rocks and not in adobe or other less resistant materials, this is because if the god had eternal life in the same way his house should endure. Today there is not much data regarding the temples of the Old Kingdom, this is because most of them have not managed to reach the present times. Of those first temples the most outstanding were the Temple of the Sphinx, located in Giza, and the Solar Temple of Nyuserra in the vicinity of Abusir. On the other hand, starting from the New Kingdom if possible there are a number of these temples, as is the case of Karnak, Abydos or Luxor.
Since the 18th dynasty, it is the moment in which one can begin to speak of the creation of a type of classical temple, which is closely related to the great power that the priestly class had acquired in the region. This involved a great effort on the part of royalty to make possible the construction and subsequent protection of the great temples that have survived to the current era.
