List of Knights Templar sites

With their military mission and extensive financial resources, the Knights Templar funded a large number of building projects around Europe and the Holy Land, many structures remain standing today.

Middle East

Templar fortresses in the Outremer

Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem: original Templar headquarters

In the Kingdom of Jerusalem, now in Israel and Southern Lebanon:

• Al-Aqsa Mosque on Temple Mount, Jerusalem, 1119-1187
• Tour du Détroit, built around 1110 by Hugues de Payens
• Castle of Merle (Khirbet el-Burj) near Tantura, 12th century to 1291 with interruption in the late 1180s
• Gaza Fortress, 1149-1187
• Chastel Hernault, 1150-1179
• La Fève, now Merhavia, 1160s to 1187
• Amman Fortress, 1166-1187
• Castle of Maldoim or Adumim (Rouge Cisterne, Arabic Qal'at ad-Damm) near Khan al-Ahmar, built ca. 1170
• Burgata inland from Netanya, until 1189
• Tel Yokneam (Caymont or Cain Mons) southeast of Haifa, ca. 1262-1265
• Yalo (Castrum Arnaldi) southeast of Ramla, 1179-1187
• A fortress in nearby Latrun, 12th century
• Safed, 1168-1188 and 1240-1266
• Chastellet du Gué de Jacob near Safed, 1178-1179
• Tour de la Quarantaine, east of Jerusalem
• Tell es-Safi (Blanchegarde)
• Properties in Acre, Israel, including the still-extant Templar Tunnel[1][2]
• Château Pèlerin (fr. "Pilgrim Castle"), also known as Atlit Castle, 1218-1291[3]
• Sidon, 1260-1268
• Beaufort Castle, Lebanon, 1260-1268

In the County of Tripoli, now in Northern Lebanon and coastal Syria:

• Chastel Blanc, 1117-1271[3]
• The city and fortress of Tartus (Tortosa), Templars headquarters 1152-1188 and fortress held until 1291, including the Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa[1][3]
• Areimeh, from the early 1150s to 1187 with interruption 1171-1177
• Arwad island (Ruad), occupied in 1300-1302 [4]

In the Principality of Antioch, now in Turkey:

• Roche-Guillaume, 12th century-1203 and 1237-1298
• Trapessac, in the 12th century until 1188
• Bagras (Gaston), 1153-1189 and 1216-1268
• Roche de Roissel, from the 12th century to 1268

The Templars also held commandries in Ascalon, Jaffa, Tyre, Laodicea, Rhosus, Alexandretta, and Ayas.

Cyprus

• The Templars briefly owned the entire island of Cyprus in 1191-1192, preceding the establishment of the Kingdom of Cyprus
• Gastria Castle, 1210-1279[5]
• Kolossi Castle, 1306-1313[2]
• Fortresses in Germasogeia and Khirokitia

Also commandries in Nicosia, Famagusta, Limassol, Paphos, and Psimolofou, including the Twin Church of the Templars and Hospitallers in Famagusta[2]

France

Templar establishments in Europe.

• Templar fortress of Paris, now destroyed.
• Commandry of Coulommiers, France[6]
• Commandry of Avalleur, in Bar-sur-Seine[7]
• Commandry of Saint-Blaise, Hyères[8]
• La Rochelle, Charente Maritime, France[1]
• Chapelle des Templiers de Metz - 12th-century Gothic chapel with octagonal plan and various paintings.[9]
• Commandry of Libdeau, Toul - 12th-century Gothic chapel with rectangular plan and traces of paintings.[10][11]
• Commandry of Notre-Dame-de-la-Boissière, Châteaudun - 12th-century Gothic chapel.
• Commandry of Sergeac[12]
• Commandry of Dognon, Blanzac-Porcheresse - 12th-century chapel with rectangular plan and various paintings.
• Commandry of Sainte-Eulalie-de-Cernon[13]
• Commandry of Richerenches[14]
• La Couvertoirade, Aveyron - A castle, commandry and fortifications[2]
• Commandry of Celles[15]
• Commandry of Arville, now restored with a museum of Templar history.[15]

Portugal

Convent of the Order of Christ, Tomar

• Castle of Almourol[1]
• Castelo Branco[1]
• Castle of Idanha[1]
• Castle of Monsanto[1]
• Castle of Penha Garcia[1]
• Castle of Pombal[2]
• Castle of Soure - received and reconstructed in March 1128, was the first castle of the Knights Templar.[16]
• Quinta da Regaleira
• Old town of Tomar, including the Castle, the Convent of the Order of Christ and the Church of Santa Maria do Olival[1][2]

Spain

Crown of Castile and Leon

• Castle of Montalbán in San Martín de Montalbán, province of Toledo[17]
• Castle of Villalba in Cebolla, Province of Toledo[17]
• Castle of San Servando, in Toledo
• The Templar House, Toledo
• Iglesia Veracruz in Segovia[18]
• Castillo de los Templarios in Ponferrada[2]
• Castle of Alcañices, in Zamora[19]

Crown of Aragon

• Peniscola Castle[2]
• Castle of Castellote[20]
• Castle of Miravet[21]
• Castle of Barbens[22]
• Castle of Gardeny, in Lérida[23]
• Commandry of Palau, in Palau-solità i Plegamans[24]
• Castle of Xivert in Valencia[2]
• Castle of Cintruénigo: the birth of a 12th-century gilda around the encomienda of Novillas, in the Valley of the middle Ebro, delimited by Queiles and Huecha, as a point of connection between the three kingdoms of Pamplona-Navarra, Aragon and Castile.[25]

United Kingdom

England

Sorted by county

• Temple Church, Bristol, Bristol[2]
• Denny Abbey, Cambridgeshire[26]
• Temple Church, Temple, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall
• St Michael's Mount, Cornwall[27]
• Temple Sowerby, Cumbria[1]
• Cressing Temple, Essex[1]
• Little Maplestead, Essex[27]
• Garway Church, Herefordshire[2][16]
• St Mary The Virgin church, Welsh Newton, Herefordshire
• Church of St Mary the Virgin in Baldock, Hertfordshire[1]
• Temple Dinsley, Hertfordshire[27]
• The Manor of Temple Ewell, Kent[1]
• Rothley Temple (Rothley Preceptory), Rothley, Leicestershire[1]
• Eagle Hall Lincolnshire
• South Witham Lincolnshire
• Temple Bruer, Lincolnshire[2][27]
• The Temple including Temple Church, London[1]
  • Inner Temple
  • Middle Temple
• Temple Mills, Stratford, London[27]
• Temple Cowton, North Yorkshire[27]
• Westerdale Preceptory, North Yorkshire[27]
• Temple Cowley, Oxfordshire[1]
• Templars Square, Oxfordshire
• Cameley and Temple Cloud, Somerset[28]
• Templecombe, Somerset[2]
• Keele, Staffordshire[29]
• Temple Balsall, Warwickshire[1]
• Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Sompting. West Sussex
• Shipley Church, Shipley, West Sussex[1][2]
• Temple Newsam, West Yorkshire[27]
• Temple Farm, Rockley, Wiltshire[1]

Scotland

• Temple, Midlothian[2]
• Castle Rainy and Templars' House, Turriff, Aberdeenshire[30]
• Darvel, East Ayrshire[31]

Ireland

• Templetown, County Wexford[32]
• Clontarf Castle (Templar Preceptory), County Dublin[32]
• Baldongan Church (in-ruins), Skerries, County Dublin[33]
• Temple House, Ballymote, County Sligo[34]

Croatia

• Cesargrad (Kayersperg)
• Brckovljani,[16][35]
• Fortress of Klis,[36]
• Glogovnica
• Gora, Croatia
• Gornji Slatinik
• Hrvatska Dubica,[36]
• Lovčić
• Našice,[36]
• Nova Ves,[36]
• Rassecha – Nova Rača
• Senj,[36]
• Zdelja village near Virje
• Vižinada
• Vrana Fortress,[23]

Italy

See a detailed list at

• Castello della Magione, Poggibonsi
• San Pietro alla Magione, Siena
• Valvisciolo Abbey, Sermoneta
• Abbey of St. Michael in Montescaglioso
• Templars' Tower at San Felice Circeo (from 1240 to 1259)

Other countries

• Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany
• Templstejn, Czech Republic[16]
• Chwarszczany village, Poland[2]
• Castle in Serednie, Serednie, Ukraine[37]

See also

• List of Knights Hospitaller sites
• Ordensburg

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