SEARCH FOR THE LOST TEMPLE STRUCTURE (3)

The City of the lost Temple used to be a lot bigger in ancient times. This was almost completely forgotten. Still a lonely hill, dominated the town; the place of ancient worship and adoration. A Christian church was build in the year 777 with the wood of the sacred pagan oak-trees. In chopping down the monumental trees the missionaries showed how powerful their God was.

Mass-conversions followed, by the word or by the sword.

The church these proto-christians build, was named after Archangel Michael, we met as a golden statue near the Northern Gate. Canon-law allows only this dedication, when its situated on a hill; like Mont Saint-Michel in France.

Till the Reformation and the break-down of Catholicism in this ancient city, when Protestants confiscated catholic properties and wealth, the Michaelchurched was named the Dom(e) of Almenum, the oldest part of our Temple-city. A name only given to important religious monuments and divine places.

After the magical year 777, in which christianity took over a pagan site, the wooden church was burned en looted several times. In the 13^th century a stone church was build. In 1777 (!) the old church was demolished and rebuild as a Cross-church (seen from above, the architecture showed a cross.

The stone tower of the medieval church was, fortunetaly safed from destruction. Many burial monuments from famous Frisian admirals disappeared for ever.