The word Temple commonly indicates a sacred structure for the divine, born just like a permanent home or a temporary home of the divine. A sacred structure is not a phenomenal with every religion, with a particular type of civilization. The word templum, derived from the root which means the act of cutting and defuse the religion to the people. Templum, it was also the place in which showing the desire to the sky to observe the landscape.

In the historic period of Romans, with the name templum they design the structures to be "celebrated", while the structures not to be celebrated are called aedes sacrae.

Rome in the second century, under the influence of ellenistico, they are constructing temples in stones. At the end of the first century a.c. they introduced the use of marble and in the first century D.C. bricks was also introduced, with the bricks it permited them to create new structures with a bigger dimension.