The Parthenon

This the ancient building lies on Acropolis, the hill above Athens, Greece. This building was constructed around 440 B.C. and was originally a temple to Athena, one of the Greek goddesses.
The architects were Iktinos and Kallikrates and the sculptor Pheidias (who made the massive chryselephantine cult statue of the goddess).
(source: http://www.plutonicdesign.com/eaw/images/EAW_parthenon_exterior1.jpg)

The Parthenon is a a large structure. It has a rectangular floor plan with a series of low steps on every side, and columns extending around the outside of the entire structure, or a Doric peripteral temple. The room, the naos, housed the cult statue and the other room, the opisthodomos was used as a treasury.

Here is a floor plan:
(source: http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110Tech/Parthenon.html)

It was built to replace two earlier temples of Athena on the Acropolis. One of these stood south of the Parthenon and hardly has any remains left.

The other was on the same spot as the Parthenon and was being built during the time of the Persian sack in 480.

The Parthenon receives attention from archaeologists, historians, architects, painters and poets. Also, from many tourists who come to learn about the Greek culture architecture.

(source: http://kbagdanov.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/the-acropolis/)

(sources: http://www.sacredsites.com/europe/greece/parthenon.html,
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/The_Parthenon.html, http://kbagdanov.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/the-acropolis/)