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Lub Tuam Tsev ntawm Hephaestus, tseem hu ua Hephaestion lossis tseem ua ntej ua cov thwjtim, yog ib lub tuam tsev zoo tshaj plaws uas tau khaws cia los ntawm lub sijhawm ntawm Classical Greece. Lub tuam tsev Doric colonnaded no nyob rau sab qaum teb sab hnub poob ntawm Athenian agora.
Lub tuam tsev tau tsim xyoo 449-415 BC. hwm tus vaj tswv Hephaestus (hauv Greek mythology, tus vaj tswv ntawm hluav taws, tus neeg saib xyuas neeg dawb huv ntawm cov kws hlau thiab cov kws tshaj lij tshaj lij tshaj lij). Kev tsim kho tau pib los ntawm tus kws tshaj lij Athenian, tus hais lus thiab tus thawj coj Pericles. Thaum nws kav, Athens mus txog qib siab tshaj plaws ntawm kev txhim kho kev lag luam thiab kab lis kev cai, lub sijhawm no tseem hu ua "Pericles age". Kev tsim lub tuam tsev tau siv sijhawm ntau dua 30 xyoo, txij li qee tus neeg ua haujlwm tau raug xa mus rau kev tsim kho ntawm Parthenon (447 BC). Tus kws kes duab vajtse ntawm cov txuj ci tseem tsis tau paub.
Lub Tuam Tsev Hephaestus yog tsim los ntawm Pentelikon thiab Parian marble. Tus qauv yog 31.776 m ntev, 13.708 m dav thiab nyob ntawm 34 kab hauv Doric style, txawm hais tias cov khaub ncaws zoo li Ionic style. 18 ntawm 68 metopes ntawm lub tuam tsev yog cov duab puab, qhov seem feem ntau yuav pleev xim. Nyob rau sab hnub tuaj ntawm lub tuam tsev, 10 metopes muaj cov duab puab ntawm kev siv Hercules. Lwm 4 metopes ntawm ib sab uas nyob ib sab pediments tau dai kom zoo nkauj nrog cov xwm txheej los ntawm lub neej ntawm Theseus.
Raws li cov lus pov thawj ntawm cov neeg Greek qub qub thiab kws sau ntawv Pausanias, lub tuam tsev muaj cov pej thuam tooj liab ntawm Athena thiab Hephaestus. Tej zaum tus neeg sau cov duab no yog cov neeg Greek ancient sculptor Alkamen, txawm li cas los xij, tsis muaj pov thawj txaus ntseeg txog qhov no.
Nyob rau xyoo pua 3 BC. tsob ntoo thiab tsob ntoo (laurel, myrtle, pomegranate) tau cog ib puag ncig lub tuam tsev, yog li tsim lub vaj me me.
Txij li xyoo pua 7 txog xyoo 1834, Greek Orthodox Church of St. George tau nyob hauv lub tuam tsev.
Lub Tuam Tsev Hephaestus yog qhov chaw qub txeeg qub teg thiab nyob hauv kev tiv thaiv ntawm Greek Ministry of Culture.