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• Ancient Egypt had many gods and many temples to them. A particular town would be the 'cult centre' to a particular god.
• During festivals the 'cult image' - an idol that was believed to house the spirit of the god - would be paraded into the temple on a boat - a 'barque'. it would be taken to it's home, the shrine inside the sanctuary.
• Each successive room in the temple was holier than the one before it. Access was progressively more restricted. The rooms received less and less light the deeper you went. The sanctuary was completely dark.
• The wall around the holy enclosure - the 'temenos' - was wavy representing the chaos of the outside world.
• A 'mammisi' was a separate chapel dedicated to the birth of the temple's god.
• Temples often had a 'Nilometer' which was used to measure the water level of the river to predict drought and floods.
• The temples had large amounts of dedicated farmland to provide for their needs. The temenos contained many supporting buildings including storehouses, workshops, hospitals and dream rooms where people hoped to receive messages from the god.

This temple is based on Edfu Temple and the Temple of Ramesses III. You can find out more about these in the writing activity 'Architecture of Ancient Egypt' which you could use as a follow-on activity.