SEARCH FOR THE LOST TEMPLE STRUCTURE
The City of the lost Temple used to be a lot bigger in ancient times. This was almost completely forgotten. Still a lonely hill, dominated the town; the place of ancient worship and adoration. A Christian church was build in the year 777 with the wood of the sacred pagan oak-trees. In chopping down the monumental trees the missionaries showed how powerful their God was.
Mass-conversions followed, by the word or by the sword.
The church, these early-christians built, was named after Archangel Michael, of whom a golden statue near was placed near the Northern Gate. Canon-law allows only this dedication, when its situated on a hill; like Mont Saint-Michel in France.
Till the Reformation and the break-down of Catholicism in this ancient city, when Protestants confiscated catholic properties and wealth, the Michael-church was named the Dom(e) of Almenum, the oldest part of our Temple-city. A name only given to important religious monuments and divine places.
After the magical year 777, in which christianity took over the pagan site, the wooden church was burned en looted several times. In the 13th century a stone church was build. Around 1777 (!) the old church was demolished and rebuild as a Cross-church (seen from above, the architecture showed a cross).
The stone tower of the medieval church was, fortunetaly safed from destruction. Many burial monuments from famous Frisian leaders and admirals disappeared for ever or were hidden underground.

Traditional relics: the red flag of Friso, the armor of Magnus the Great, the documents signed by Charlemagne and the Pope and rendering the Frisians freedom from outside rulers and a part of the finger of a Catholic martyr, disappeared as well.