A Scottish Mason temple kinda like it in Wash dc……………man is this place odd…………………
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The Masonic House of the Templeof the Scottish Rite, Washington, DC,John Russell Pope, architect, 1911–15, another scholarly version.
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus[1] (Modern Greek: Μαυσωλείο της Αλικαρνασσού; Turkish: Halikarnas Mozolesi) was atomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a satrap in the Persian Empire, and Artemisia II of Caria, who was both his wife and his sister. The structure was designed by the Greek architects Satyros and Pythius of Priene.[2][3]
This was a tomb, like the Taj Mahal, it was in modern day Turkey, and by the writings of people who saw it………..Greeks who traveled across Turkey, this was the most beautiful of them all,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,smaller in size, but an utter masterpiece…………………a local queen or princess in ancient Turkey had it built for her passed husband by just about all the Greek masters of that time period…………..mathematicians and archetects………..
MAUSOLEUM AT HALICARNASSUS
Located in what is now southeastern Turkey, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was a tomb built by Artemisia for her husband, Mausolus, the king of Carnia in Asia Minor, after his death in 353 B.C. Mausolus was also Artemisia’s brother, and, according to legend, she was so grief-stricken at his passing that she mixed his ashes with water and drank them in addition to ordering the mausoleum’s construction. The massive mausoleum was made entirely of white marble and is thought to have been about 135 feet high. The building’s complicated design, consisting of three rectangular layers, may have been an attempt to reconcile Lycian, Greek and Egyptian architectural styles. The first layer was a 60-foot base of steps, followed by a middle layer of 36 Ionic columns and a stepped, pyramid-shaped roof. At the very top of the roof lay the tomb, decorated by the work of four sculptors, and a 20-foot marble rendition of a four-horse chariot. The mausoleum was largely destroyed in an earthquake in the 13th century and its remains were later used in the fortification of a castle. In 1846, pieces of one of the mausoleum’s friezes were extracted from the castle and now reside, along with other relics from the Halicarnassus site, in London’s British Museum.
