The Temple of Cybele stood on the western slope of the Palatine Hill in Rome, above the valley of the Circus Maximus. A sacred meteoric stone was brought to Rome from Asia Minor in 204 BC, and the temple was dedicated on 11 April 191 BC. The first Megalesia festival was held in front of it.
The temple was prostyle and hexastyle in the Corinthian order. It was 109 feet (33 meters) deep and 56 feet (17 meters) wide, on a podium of tufa and peperino. It held a statue of Cybele enthroned, with a turreted crown and lions at her side.
The temple burned in 111 BC and was restored. It burned twice more in the early Imperial era, and Augustus rebuilt it each time. It was destroyed in 394 AD on the orders of Theodosius I.
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