id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4263 Roman temple - Wikipedia .html text/html 5547 621 67 Some remains of many Roman temples still survive, above all in Rome itself, but the relatively few near-complete examples were nearly all converted into Christian churches (and sometimes subsequently to mosques), usually a considerable time after the initial triumph of Christianity under Constantine. However, unlike the Greek models, which generally gave equal treatment to all sides of the temple, which could be viewed and approached from all directions, the side and rear walls of Roman temples might be largely undecorated (as in the Pantheon, Rome and Vic), inaccessible by steps (as in the Maison Carrée and Vic), and even back on to other buildings. In 1570, it was documented as still containing nine statues of Roman emperors in architectural niches.[20] Most of the earlier emperors had their own very large temples in Rome,[4] but a faltering economy meant that the building of new imperial temples mostly ceased after the reign of Marcus Aurelius (d. Stamper, John, The architecture of Roman temples: the republic to the middle empire, Cambridge University Press, 2005 ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4263.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4263.txt