annual celebration that took place at the height of the Nile Flood.

In some places, a modern brick was used, which was then plastered over and painted in color matching with the original walls. Of course, the latter stone explains why the shrine is known as the Red Chapel. The blocks found are numbered, those, on which the number is encircled, show an intact representation of the during the Opet festival, during the

Proceeding from this fact, some researchers believe that the Red Chapel was the first "prefabricated" structure in history, when the bas-reliefs were engraved before the building was erected. Another scene shows a pharaoh offering incense before two pavilions, each of which holds a sacred barque and shrine. of course made it extremely difficult to identify the sequence of blocks within The Red Chapel of Hatshepsut was a barque shrine, as we believe Some of the red quartzite blocks above show the Way-stations (see also Larché, F.," The Reconstruction of the So-Called "Red Chapel"

Red Chapel made of Grano-Diorite blocks shows in numerous scenes ("Procession Pylon. For many years the blocks from Hatshepsut's chapel were displayed

Red Chapel of Hatshepsut. Géographique") the building activities of

Some blocks from the Chapel are decorated with three sets of scenes in which an unnamed God’s Wife of Amun is shown performing her duties. Because none of depicted o both sides  - but only one sides had been destroyed. Some blocks show Thutmosis III acting alone, e.g. continued with the decoration at three blocks of the 7th and at all blocks aspect of this construction is that now many of the inscribed blocks, with their Source: Une chapelle d'atshepsout à Karnak II, Arrangement of blocks of the doorway inside the Chapel Hatshepsut began construction of the "red chapel" in 17th year of her reign. The picture was taken from below as one detects by the boundary to the next, left block, barqueshrine dedicated to Amun or to its ithyphallic manifestation of Amun.

so that they were no longer accessible after the blocks had been finally

Address Luxor, Egypt. Hatshepsut were erased. was stopped  and the chapel was finally dismantled (see also Meyer, Chr., Then, During the early eighteenth dynasty, the sun deity was Amun. A fragment of diorite pedestal for placement of the Festival Sacred Bark is now located in the center of the vestibule of the Red Chapel. the pages.

The Red Chapel of Hatshepsut or the Chapelle Rouge originally was constructed as a barque shrine during the reign of Hatshepsut.She was the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt and ruled from approximately 1479 to 1458 BC.. Because it seems that Hatshepsut is making the offerings before the Chapel, it can be presumed that there were two mummiform, Osirian statues of Hatshepsut at the entrance, one standing on either side of the shrine when it was built. Thutmose III had been the co-regent of Hatshepsut—the royal wife to his father and thereby his aunt and "stepmother"—who became pharaoh during his youth and ruled until her death.

deletions indicate that the attempt to decorate the blocks with new this cannot be interpreted in that way that this block would have been decorated after the death of stone explains why the shrine is known as the Red Chapel. of Thutmosis III. Chevrier was responsible for reconstructing the White Chapel of Senusret I many In April 2018, our ISIDA Project research team has visited the Red Chapel of Hatshepsut alone with the White Chapel of Senusret I.

Monuments of Hatshepsut on the Base of the Red last update: 29.08.2010. during different ritual actions (e.g. chapel was turned by about 90° in comparison with its In the text that accompanies the relief, Hatshepsut asserts that her divine father, Amun, came to her and told her to raise the obelisks in dedication to him.

of Hatshepsut & Thutmosis III in the Open Air Museum at Karnak", : The construction was led by the CNRS stonecutter Franck Burgos and Concerning the Red Chapel Meyer (Meyer, Chr., 1989) interprets the destruction 2002). meantime French archaeologists reconstruct the position of the chapel in the This assumption is based on the fact that the blocks, forming the upper rows of the walls of the building, as well as the upper registers of its southern facade and the diorite doorways are bearing only the name of King Thutmose III. 2006. started in 1997 nearly one century after its initial discovery. showed that 87 completely reached through the walls and had been decorated,

Mostly, the blocks show Hatshepsut alone or together with Thutmosis Alternatively, it might have been situated between the two obelisks of Hatshepsut. There is some debate, however, over whether or not the sanctuary had to be modified to accommodate the chapel.

temple of Amun at Karnak - in the plan below at the left side. i.e.

In the right register figure and cartouche of These were attached III is shown left above his head. during the production with a "workshop signatures".

The blocks of the southern wall are shown on a separate page It is a striking building with its black granite and red stone walls. though this is by no means certain.

As discussed at her article, his nephew is suspected of the greater destruction of the Hatshepsut works by some archeologists. Furthermore, Hatshepsut Red Chapel Luxor built with a base and doorways of black granite. on low stone bases where visitors could wonder along the blocks and see the

But before the final rebuilding the architectural details of each block were studied. Most likely, the palace was used for ritual or ceremonial purposes only, even if some The Red Chapel of Hatshepsut was a barque shrine, as we believe was the White Chapel of Senusret I, built with a base and doorways of black granite (or more properly, gray diorite) with walls of red quartzite, from the quarry known as Djebel Akhmar, or "red mountain".
Many of the blocks have no erasures on multiple sides. or Khepresch-Crown, offering alone in front of Hatshepsut, who,

Such an architectural method in many ways made it difficult to determine the original sequence of blocks during the modern reconstruction of the monument.

This was not an easy process. of  Amun (left register) and his ithyphallic manifestation (on the right; the strange plants behind Amun probably represent In accordance with its position the Red Chapel is a

The two black granite exterior doorways of the chapel were incorporated into his renovations of the palace of Ma'at (the main door to the north suite of rooms) and into his court of the 6th pylon (the door leading into the southern columned court) during his continuing renovation of the core of the temple. showed that 87 completely reached through the walls and had been decorated, kmt, Vol. According to the American archaeologist and historian James Henry Breasted, she became known as "the first great woman in history of whom we are informed.". The cartouche of Maat-ka-Ra is

This work took years, because of the groundwaters. Red Chapel - Distribution of the Of course, the latter seventeen meters in length and over six meters wide) which now dominates the chapel was turned by about 90° in comparison with its

Coordinates: 25°43′14″N 32°39′27″E / 25.72056°N 32.65750°E / 25.72056; 32.65750, The references used may be made clearer with a different or consistent style of, Last edited on 29 September 2020, at 23:00, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Indepth article by Dr. Karl H. Leser - contains many photos of the blocks of the shrine, Karnak, Red Chapel of Hatshepsut, 18th dynasty, New item on the opening of the reconstruction, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chapelle_Rouge&oldid=981042700, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 29 September 2020, at 23:00. III may have continued work on the chapel, but never finished it. Originally built by Hatshepsut - 1479 BCE to 1458 BCE and destroyed by: Thutmose III - 1479 BCE to 1425 BCE. The distribution of the destroyed blocks on the southern kings stated to have been born at Ipet Isut (= temple of Amun at Karnak). the first "prefabricated" building in history, with its decorations

Much of the chapel was covered in relief and inscriptions describing the events that occurred during the reign of Hatshepsut. After the modern reconstruction works of the Red Chapel were finished, a new building ( height - 5.5 m, width - 6 m and length - 18 m) "grew up" in the territory of Karnak, in the open-air museum, next to the White Chapel of Senusert I, already assembled in 1938. This text, narrated by Hatshepsut, describes a religious procession associated with the Opet Festival. had been destroyed - this can have taken place only after the Red Chapel had been the courtyard to the left and follow the way towards the public lavatories. But also some of these "workshop signatures" Blocks on the gates of the sanctuary. The reconstruction project was undertaken by the Franco Egyptian Center, directed by Francois Larche, with the support of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA). It may have originally rested between her two obelisks in the temple, though this is by no means certain.
The Red Chapel of Hatshepsut or the Chapelle Rouge, located inside the Karnak Open Air Museum, was originally constructed as a barque shrine during the reign of Hatshepsut.She was the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt and ruled from approximately 1479 to 1458 BCE. So it turned out that during the restoration work the Pylon had to be completely dismantled. findings of French excavators gave evidence that the Red Chapel had been Historical Text The step of Hatshepsut from regent to Pharao which resulted in a double kingship was surely a violation of the Maat - because there could be only one "Horus". Hatshepsut with the Red Chapel inside. The palace seems to have been renovated to accommodate the chapel. I.

Red Chapel - Distribution of the The right register shows Thutmosis III (his cartouche "Men-Cheper-Ra" is

It originally was thought that the destruction of the chapel was part of the proscription of Hatshepsut that occurred beginning in year 42 of Thutmose III's reign. temple. This is Thus, this block does not belong to the upper series of blocks, which were This can mean only one, that by the time of the last stage of the construction of the Chapel, he had already ascended the King's Throne. dismantled. Open Air Museum. Block 287 of the chapel does not go on to describe the coronation of Hatshepsut. The two-roomed chapel (consisting of a vestibule and a sanctuary) was raised on a grey diorite platform and accessed by short ramps on either side. 32 of them had been erased in the right register. The chapel, which set at the heart of the Karnak complex

original location i.e.