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Sun Temple

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1200–1300

This D-shaped structure is 121 feet long, 64 feet wide, and 11 feet high, with twenty-four rooms, three kivas, and a kiva court. The walls are 2 feet thick and 11 to 14 feet high. Anthropologists speculate that this edifice served religious purposes.

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Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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Thomas J. Noel, "Sun Temple", [, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-MT27.

Print Source

Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 603-603.

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