Garni temple
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Perry Scalfano Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Perry Scalfano Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 04, 2025 10:38 AM
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History
The Garni Temple dates to the first century A.D. and was sacred to the Armenian sun god Mihr.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/976360689
40.1123707519, 44.7300593746
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Garni temple (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- CIGS location of Garni (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Գառնիի (Garni: Armenian, modern)
- Garni temple located at Gorneae (unspecified date range)
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archaeological site, temple
Pleiades
A well-preserved temple complex that may have been sacred to Mithras.
Perry Scalfano, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Garni temple: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/976360689> [accessed: 16 December 2025]
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