Chhath puja in India , World and Sun Temples around world Part 6. Temples in World. Last part.

West Holy Gate  - Temple of Sun, Beijing.

   

The Temple of Sun, in Beijing, China was built in 1530 during the Ming dynasty by the Jiajing.

Emperor together with new temples dedicated to the Earth and the Moon and an expansion of the Temple of Heaven. 

The Temple of the Sun was used by the imperial court for elaborate acts of worship involving fasting, prayers, dancing and animal sacrifices, as part of a year-long cycle of ceremonies involving all the temples. 

An important element was the colour red, which was associated with the Sun, including red utensils for food and wine offerings, and red clothes for the emperor to wear during the ceremonies the temple is now part of a public park.

Egyptian Sun Temple.  
 

A plan of Userkaf's temple.

    

In ancient Egypt, there were a number of sun temples. 

Among these old monuments is the Great Temple of Ramses at Abu Simbel, and complexes built by the 5^th dynasty, of which only two examples survive, that of Userkaf and of Niuserre. 

The Fifth Dynasty temples usually had three components, a main temple building at a higher elevation, accessed by a causeway, from a much smaller entrance building. 

In 2006, archaeologists found ruins underneath a market in Cairo, which could possibly be the largest temple built by Ramesses II.  

The Temple of the Sun in the Temple of the Cross Complex, at the Mayan site of Palenque, in southern Mexico, built sometime between 200 and 900 AD.

The Temple of Night Sun at the Mayan site of El Zotz, Guatemala is possibly abandoned in the fifth century.

 

Qurikancha, in Cusco, was the most important temple in the Inca Empire, dedicated primarily to the sun god.  

There are several Shinto Shrines in Japan, dedicated to the sun goddess Amaterasu.