A lawyer park (Knight's Templar Temple)
Round church of the Temple
After having to pretty much walk all the way around it to find the open door, we finally found the entrance to the Temple, the home of the Knight's Templar in the days of the Crusades, but now converted to law offices and the like. I believe the church figures in the movie the Da Vinci code, but I have yet to see the movie so I'm not 100% positive. The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Latin: Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici), popularly known as the Knights Templar, was one of the most famous of the Christian military orders. It existed for about two centuries in the Middle Ages, created in the aftermath of the First Crusade of 1096 to ensure the safety of the large numbers of European pilgrims who flowed toward Jerusalem after its conquest. Most of us only know of it from Indiana Jones fame, but hey, it's a start, right? Most of my classical music knowledge started off with Bugs Bunny. Remember the Barber of Seville? The Templars were an unusual order in that they were both monks and soldiers, making them in effect some of the earliest "warrior monks" in the Western world. Members of the Order played a key part in many battles of the Crusades.
Oh look, casts of dead bodies! Coincidence?
