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Mithraeum is a place of worship for the followers of the mystery religion
Mystery religion

Mystery Religions, Sacred Mysteries or simply Mysteries, were "religious Cult of the Graeco-Roman world, full admission to which was restricted to those who had gone through certain secret initiation rites."...
 of Mithraism
Mithraism

The Mithraic Mysteries or Mysteries of Mithras was a mystery cult which became popular among the military in the Roman Empire, from the 1st to 4th centuries AD....
. They were often constructed underground or in a cave
Cave

A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter. Some people suggest that the term cave should only apply to cavities that have some part that does not receive daylight; however, in popular usage, the term includes smaller spaces like sea caves, rock shelters, and grottos....
 to resemble the cave where Mithras is said to have slain the sacred bull (compare the very similar bull slaying depicted in the Enkidu
Enkidu

Enkidu is a central figure in the Ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh. In the story he is a wild-man Feral child until he is bedded by the temple priestess Shamhat....
 seal).






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Mithraeum is a place of worship for the followers of the mystery religion
Mystery religion

Mystery Religions, Sacred Mysteries or simply Mysteries, were "religious Cult of the Graeco-Roman world, full admission to which was restricted to those who had gone through certain secret initiation rites."...
 of Mithraism
Mithraism

The Mithraic Mysteries or Mysteries of Mithras was a mystery cult which became popular among the military in the Roman Empire, from the 1st to 4th centuries AD....
. They were often constructed underground or in a cave
Cave

A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter. Some people suggest that the term cave should only apply to cavities that have some part that does not receive daylight; however, in popular usage, the term includes smaller spaces like sea caves, rock shelters, and grottos....
 to resemble the cave where Mithras is said to have slain the sacred bull (compare the very similar bull slaying depicted in the Enkidu
Enkidu

Enkidu is a central figure in the Ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh. In the story he is a wild-man Feral child until he is bedded by the temple priestess Shamhat....
 seal). The word has come to be used in the context of any secret place used for secret rituals.

Notable mithraea:


France
  • Sarrebourg
    Sarrebourg

    Sarrebourg is a Communes of France in the Moselle Departments of France in Lorraine in northeastern France. It lies in on the upper course of the river Saar River....


Germany
  • Dieburg
    Dieburg

    Dieburg is a town in southern Hessen, Germany. It was formerly the seat of the district of Dieburg, but is now part of the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg....
    /Darmstadt
    Darmstadt

    Darmstadt is a city in the States of Germany of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area.The city of Darmstadt was founded by the Counts of Katzenelnbogen in 1330, though settlement in the area is known to have been present as early as the late 11th century....
  • Frankfurt
    Frankfurt

    is the largest city in the German States of Germany of Hesse and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Germany, with a 2008 population of 670,000....
    -Heddernheim
  • Freiburg im Breisgau, mithraeum relics from Riegel displayed in Freiburg museum
  • Gimmeldingen
    Gimmeldingen

    Gimmeldingen is a village of 2636 inhabitants and part of the city of Neustadt an der Weinstra?e in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.It is a well-known vineyard, source of the Gimmeldinger Meerspinne....
    , Mithras-Heiligtum
  • Güglingen
    Güglingen

    G?glingen is a town in the Heilbronn in Baden-W?rttemberg in southern Germany. It is situated 18 km southwest of Heilbronn....
  • Hanau
    Hanau

    Hanau is a town in the Main-Kinzig-Kreis, in Hesse, Germany. It is located 25 km east of Frankfurt....
  • Heidelberg
    Heidelberg

    Heidelberg is a city in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. As of 2006, over 140,000 people live within the city's area. The town of Heidelberg is an administrative district of its own....
    , Museum Kurpfälzisches
  • Köln
  • Königsbrunn
    Königsbrunn

    K?nigsbrunn is a municipality and the largest town in the Augsburg , in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the Lech River, approx....
     (near Augsburg
    Augsburg

    Augsburg is an Independent City city in the south-west of Bavaria. The College town is home of the Regierungsbezirk Swabia and also of the Swabia and the Augsburg ....
    )
  • Mainz
    Mainz

    Mainz is a city in Germany and the capital of the Germany States of Germany of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was a politically important seat of the Prince-elector of Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman Empire fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine River and formed part of the northernmost frontier of th...
    , Consecration Altars of the Mithraeum Mogontiacum
  • Neuss
    Neuss

    Neuss is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the west bank of the Rhine opposite D?sseldorf, and owes its success to its location at the crossing of historic and modern trade routes....
     (Legionslager Castra Novaesia)
  • Osterburken
    Osterburken

    Osterburken is a town in the Neckar-Odenwald district, in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. It is situated 28 km southwest of Tauberbischofsheim, 50 km northeast of Heilbronn, 90 km east of Heidelberg, 60 km southwest of W?rzburg and 30 km east of Mosbach....
  • Riegel am Kaiserstuhl
    Riegel am Kaiserstuhl

    Riegel am Kaiserstuhl is a Germany municipality in the district of Emmendingen in Baden-W?rttemberg. It is accessed by the Bundesautobahn 5 ....
    (near Freiburg im Breisgau)
  • Saalburg
    Saalburg

    The Saalburg is a Roman fort located on the Taunus ridge northwest of Bad Homburg, Hesse, Germany. It is a Cohort Fort belonging to the Limes Germanicus, the Roman linear border fortification of the German provinces....
  • Saarbrücken
    Saarbrücken

    Saarbr?cken is the capital of the state of Saarland in Germany. The city sits at the heart of a metropolitan area that bounds westwards to Dillingen, Saarland and northeastwards to Neunkirchen, Saarland, in which most of the people of the Saarland live....
  • Schwarzerden
    Schwarzerden

    Schwarzerden is a municipality in the Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany....
  • Wiesloch
    Wiesloch

    Wiesloch is a city in Germany, in northern Baden-W?rttemberg. It is situated 13 kilometres south of Heidelberg.After Weinheim, Sinsheim and Leimen it is the fourth largest city of the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis and is in the north-central area near Heidelberg with its neighbouring town Walldorf....


Hungary
  • Aquincum Mithraeum (of Victorinus)
    Aquincum Mithraeum (of Victorinus)

    .Temple to the Roman god Mithras. The temple was built within a townhouse in the Roman city of Aquincum, on the outskirts of the modern city of Budapest, Hungary....
    . Remains open within Aquincum Archaeological Park.
  • Savaria Mithraeum
    Savaria Mithraeum

    Savaria Mithraeum was the shrine of Mithras in the Roman Empire town of Savaria which was discovered in 2008....
    .


Italy In the city of Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
:
  • Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus
    Circus Maximus

    The Circus Maximus is an ancient hippodrome and mass entertainment venue located in Rome. Situated in the valley between the Aventine Hill and Palatine Hill hills, it was the first and largest circus in ancient Rome....
    . Remains open by appointment.
  • Barberini
    Barberini

    The Barberini are a family of the Italian people nobility that rose to prominence in 17th century Rome. Their influence peaked with the election of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini to the papal throne in 1623, as Pope Urban VIII....
     Mithraeum. remains open by appointment.
  • Mithraeum of San Clemente, under the basilica of San Clemente. Remains visible in archaeological museum.
  • Mithraeum of the Baths of Caracalla
    Baths of Caracalla

    The Baths of Caracalla were Ancient Rome public baths, or thermae, built in Rome between AD 212 and 216, during the reign of the Caracalla....
    . Remains open by appointment.
  • Castra Peregrinorum mithraeum, under the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo
    Santo Stefano Rotondo

    The Basilica of St. Stephen in the Round on the Celian Hill is an ancient basilica in Rome, Italy. Commonly named Santo Stefano Rotondo, the church is the National churches in Rome of Hungary dedicated to Saint Stephen and Saint Stephen of Hungary....
    . Remains open by appointment.
  • Mithraeum under the Santa Prisca
    Santa Prisca

    Santa Prisca is a basilica churches of Rome Rome, devoted to Saint Prisca, a 1st century martyr, on the Aventine hill. It was built in the 4th or 5th century over a temple of Mithras, and is recorded as the Titulus Priscae in the acts of the 499 synod....
     basilica. Remains open by appointment.
Spain
  • Roman Ville of Fuente Álamo's Mithraeum (Puente Genil
    Puente Genil

    Puente Genil is a village in the Spain province of C?rdoba Province, Spain, situated about 45 miles from the city of C?rdoba, Spain. It has a population of 28,139 ....
    ).


Romania
  • A reconstructed Mithraeum in the Brukenthal Museum's Lapidarium, with some of the items unearthed at Apulum (Alba Iulia).


Switzerland
  • Martigny
    Martigny, Switzerland

    Martigny is the capital of the French language-speaking district of Martigny in the Cantons of Switzerland of Valais in Switzerland.It lies at an elevation of 471 meters....
     (ancient Octodurus) - a reconstructed Mithraeum


United Kingdom
  • Caernarfon Mithraeum
    Caernarfon Mithraeum

    The Caernarfon Mithraeum is a Roman Temple to the Roman god Mithras . The temple was located 137 metres north-east of the Roman Britain castra of Segontium on the outskirts of modern Caernarfon in North Wales....
    , Wales.
  • Carrawburgh
    Carrawburgh

    Carrawburgh is a settlement in Northumberland. In Roman times, it was the site of a 3? acre Auxiliaries fort on Hadrian's Wall called Brocolitia, Procolita, or Brocolita This name is probably based on the Celtic name for the place, and one possible translation put forward is 'badger holes'....
    , Hadrian's Wall
    Hadrian's Wall

    Hadrian's Wall is a Rock and Sod fortification built by the Roman Empire across the width of what is now northern England. Begun in AD 122, during the rule of emperor Hadrian, it was the middle of three such fortifications built across Great Britain, the first being from the River Clyde to the River Forth under Agricola and the last the Ant...
    , England. Remains open.
  • London Mithraeum, England. Remains open.


See also: Mithraic places of interest