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media type="custom" key="7167133" Great and Historically Known By Architectural Digest Staff Member, Zoey Chittick. Greek life has created a great influence all over the world in the architecture we have today. Religion played a major part of Greek life, almost dominating it; so it is not very surprising that the temples of ancient Greece are large and immensely beautiful. The floor plan of a typical Greek temple is somewhat similar to the floor plan of almost any type of church. In the grand Greek temples, there are three types of columns that support the temples ceiling structure: Doric, which are the simplest in design; Ionic, which have the curlicues called volutes at the top; and Corinthian which have the acanthus leaves around the crown of the column. The Doric columns are the most simplistic of all three. They stand up to thirty meters tall and about one fourth to one sixth of their height, in width. On a Doric column there is about twenty fluted concave grooves, all parallel to each other. An older building, the ﻿Greek Parthenon, has Doric columns all around the building. A newer structure, the Lincoln Memorial, has Doric columns just like the ancient Greek Parthenon. The Lincoln Memorial located in National Mall, was built in Washington D.C in honor of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States. “Shortly after Lincoln’s death, a commission was proposed to plan the monument. It was first put off because of lack of funds,”. (The Lincoln...) It has a very distinct Greek look to it with the squareness of the building. There are thirty-six fluted Doric columns that surround the Lincoln Memorial. There is a nineteen foot, 175 ton statue of Lincoln inside the building. The Lincoln Memorial was built in 1914 and finished in 1917, the memorial was opened in 1922 to the public. Now, the Parthenon, an actual ancient Greek building has forty-six outer columns and it was constructed in 447 B.C; however the building of it continued until 432 B.C, “When work began on the Parthenon... the Athenian Empire was at the height of its power”. (Ancient Greek...)The Parthenon replaced two other temples for Athena, both of which had stood on the Acropolis. The Parthenon has a rectangular floor plan with a series of low steps on every side. There are two rooms in the Parthenon, one of them, the larger room, called the Naos, has a statue of Athena. The smaller room, which is called the Opisthodomos, is the treasury. The Parthenon was built on the Acropolis in honor of Athena. The Greek temples have a beauty of being simplistic with the columns encircling the building's edges, but an elaborateness from the column's design of Doric, Ionic or Corinthian. The Greek architecture is seen in lots of mansions, capital buildings, memorials or monuments even private houses. In every city there is a chance of having one building or more with Greek columns.