17 Feb 2020

The Pagan Sites of the Middle East Remembered: (4) The Temple of Anahita at Kangavar


On a flat-topped hill in the small Iranian town of Kangavar, you can see the remains of the vast temple of Anahita, an ancient Iranian goddess whose origins date back before Zoroastrianism, but who continued to be venerated long into the reign of the new religion, and whose memory has not been erased even by the advent of Islam.