Temple introduction: The temple took 120 years to build and was completed in 550 BC. It was a wooden structure at the time and was quite large in scale. The top step at the bottom was about 100 meters long and 55 meters wide. The temple was surrounded by two rows of 127 huge columns on three sides, each 18 meters high. They supported the huge roof above. . For nearly 200 years after it was built, it stood majestically on a high mountain in the northeastern outskirts of Ephesus, welcoming people who came for pilgrimage one after another. It was a holy place longed for by pilgrims from the Aegean Islands and the Greek immigrant city-states on the west coast of Asia Minor. temple.