Philae

The island of Philae is the island in the middle of the River Nile, oneofthe strongest forts along the southern borders of Egypt, and to separate the two channels Maackstin Nile in Aswan, the Temple of Philae was moved from its place of origin on the island of Philae was collected on the island of Ojileka, in the wake of the High Dam . [1]
Because of the name of elephants or Vilay to the Greek language, which means (beloved) or (granules) As it is the Arab name (Anas exist) because of the myth of Anas in the story of the Thousand and One Nights The Name the ancient Egyptian and Coptic Bilek or Bilak is meant to limit or end because it was Another Egyptian borders in the south. And a set of worship dedicated to the worship of the goddess Isis, however, that the island contained a temple of Amenhotep Anhor and the other over the centuries Alamaabdwilp

Built temples, "elephants" in the origin of the worship of the goddess "Isis"
In all the centuries, elephants have gained a special place in the worship to the extent that a crowd of followers that they meet to worship, to revive the story of death and sent Osores.
The great temple was built during the third century BC, was followed by the temples and Amenhoteb Orsnovis. The temple is Anhor is another impact Btalmi and construction was completed before the year 116 BC by Iiorgits II. The inscriptions were added to the Btalmp elephants, one of the masterpieces of the temple. From Egypt, goddess Isis spread to Greece and Rome and in various parts of the empire, even when the application of Roman rule in Egypt, the rulers tried to beautify the island has built the Holy Emperor Caesar August temple at the north end of the elephants in the ninth century BC. The Tibirios and others have been added edifices and inscriptions, was built as Claudius and Trajan and Hadrian, and new buildings, hence the island continued until the fourth century AD.
The intensity of the control of the cult of Isis on the island of Philae led to an extension of that worship for many centuries in defiance of the decree of Emperor Theodosius I in 391 AD by which it imposes on Christianity throughout the Roman Empire. In the year 550 AD under the rule of Justinean reached the island of Philae to Christianity and began a new chapter in its history. And the new Christian community in the island of Philae and the room turned to the columns that are appropriate to the exercise of the new religion. Were taken from some of the stones for the construction of Christian churches on the island. The new village grew around the temple of Isis. [2]
"When elephants were considered a bastion of Islam as represented by the legend of a story of the Thousand and One Nights, and acquired the name of Anas exist after the hero of one of these stories the Temple of Philae

This temple for the goddess Isis, the Nile water Ogrgueth was divided and re-assembled at a new site on the island of Ijileka at a distance of about 500 m from the place of the original island of Philae The buildings of the temple Anhor and visitors can watch the presentation of the sound and light at night, which provides a variety of languages. [3]
Egypt was part of the prosperous parts of the Roman Empire, the rich have the right to built a number of cities where the new facilities is months in Egypt in the Roman era of the so-called recess Far'oun any Trajan kiosk and the impact on the island of Philae was built by Trajan the Roman Governor. [4 temples on the island of Philae



Trajan kiosk
Held a large number of temples on the island of "elephants" Perhaps the oldest of these temples, dating back to the reign of King Tuthmosis III (1490-1436 BC). In the fourth century BC, built the King "Nkht Npf" (378-341 BC. M) and a huge temple built on the effect of "Ptolemy Veladlv" (the third century BC) the great temple, and then followed by many of the kings of Ptolemy and the Romans until the crown crowded island of Philae temple , and the most famous is the so-called "Pharaoh's bedroom."
There is also a large number of statues of the kings of ancient Egypt on the island of Philae. [5]
Return over the ruins, the first island of Philae to the reign of King Tehrqa (family twenty-fifth) and the Temple of Isis is one of the largest and most important effects in the group of temples large and small over the island of Philae and the temple is about a quarter of the island Among other effects on the island of Philae limited "I Nkhtnbo" (Thirty-family), and two from the ranks of columns dating back to Roman times, the Temple of Orisnovis Greek - Roman Temple of Mandolees (from the Roman), Temple Imahotb (Age Batlmi) One of the most important temples, which takes a series of small temples, the great temple Anhor (age Batlmi) Trajan and limited. [6 Ijileka Island

Has been restructured Ijileka Island, which lies a distance of hundred meters from the site of the island of Philae in [7] and transferred to the various temples of the island of Philae and the sunken island that is similar to elephants. Since the completion of construction of the Aswan Dam in 1902 and the first water surrounding the island of Philae in the Nile most of the year, and so left untouched the island's stock of precious ancient temples, including booths, bars and gates, which reflect the pharaohs, all the methods of Roman architecture - Greek and Pharaonic.
The Nkhtnbo which is one of the last kings of Egypt had built the original temple on the island of Philae in the first half of the fourth century BC, and after it was Ptolemy who ruled the country for 300 years and converted to the cult of Isis, Vodavo private tombs on the island.
The higher the construction of the dam to change the situation is drastically On the grounds that the island will be located between the new dam and the old dam will become partially submerged, but throughout the year.
In addition, the daily withdrawal of water to push the turbines that generate electricity and has a presence in almost constant waves of 3 meters from the water level, which in turn leads to rapid destruction of stones and then the failure to find a solution to this problem would have this floating island, which has long Klapt the lives of the tourists to disappear from the map.
When the problem of elephants as a problem was an urgent response to the campaign of the Nuba Maeks a quick determination of the international community to save this area of beauty and historical importance of this issue and then save the elephants were not or not how to save as much as UNPROFOR.
However, after studying the results of this project and in particular the impact of artesian water and the effects of the cost of the project required a large, experts also suggested that other projects submitted by the Egyptian government and the aims of this project is to transfer the island to Ijileka.
Started the process of saving the elephants in 1972, when the vessels have started to pile on the stabilization of the first steel, among about 3000, in the bottom of the Nile and to form a temporary dam to reserve water around the island and it took two years to inform the island Bsfin of interlocking pile length 12 meters, and within this vacuum has been pouring a mixture of water and sand quarries in the waterfall laundered after 5 kilometers, and the delivery of this mixture over the lake through pipes, water was allowed to spill over, leaving the sand to support the steel against the pressure of the lake, and thus escape complete belt around the island. [6]
Save the island of Philae Temple of Isis