The Temple of Hephaistos is one of the best preserved temples in all of Greece. It was built around 449 BC as a part of the rebuilding of the Agora after the Persians destroyed the city in 480 BC. The temple was dedicated to two gods, Hephaistos (god of the forge) and Athena (goddess of arts and crafts), and was a peristyle temple made of Pentelic marble in the Doric style (like the Parthenon). In the 7th century the temple was turned into a Greek Orthodox church dedicated to St. George and it remained a church until 1834 at which time it served as a local museum until excavations began in the 1930s.
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