Pantheon, Rome

Pantheon, Rome (Italy)

The Pantheon is a former Roman temple and since 609 AD a Catholic church in Rome Italy on the site of an earlier temple commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus. It was rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian and probably dedicated in c. 126 AD. Its date of construction is uncertain because Hadrian chose not to inscribe the new temple but rather to retain the inscription of Agrippas older temple which had burned down.