Egyptahotep's video: EGYPT 831 - ABU GURAB III - by Egyptahotep

ABU GURAB III (Solar Temple of Niuserre) ; abu gurab is an archaeological site located 1km to the north of Abusir, Several Old Kingdom rulers built their pyramid complexes at Abusir, but it became a custom during Dynasty V for pharaohs to dedicate separate temples to the sun-god Re. Niuserre used similar elements in the construction of his sun-temple as those reconstructed from Userkaf’s solar temple (the other solar temple of abu gurab located at a few mts and today totally destroyed) and which had become common in pyramid complexes. The upper temple was on a levelled terrace, its rectangular walls first constructed in mudbrick and later encased in yellow limestone. A vestibule led into a courtyard which was dominated on its western side by a large obelisk constructed from limestone blocks and which stood on a flat-topped pyramid-shaped pedestal, around 15m high. The obelisk probably symbolized the ‘ben-ben’ stone on which the sun’s rays first shone in the Heliopolitan creation myth.