The court of Ramses II

karnak sound and light show in luxor 2

Passing through the pylon entrance, the visitor enters the court of Ramses II with 16 statues of the pharaohand surrounding74 papyrus-type columns with lotus-bud capitals and arranged neatly in a double row.

Ramses II ruled during the time of the construction.
The entire courtyard also includes a chapel on the northern side that is dedicated to the god

Amun

.
The holy rooms:-
In the most holy rooms, which are the chambers located at the back of the Temple, you will find odd spots everywhere, but only in there.
These spots are from Bat's, which fly around at night.
There is something magical about these inner chambers, they are build in such a manner that the Bat's inner radar system (which it uses, because the Bat is born blind), does not work and so they crash into the walls.
The walls material does that the radar are reflected and spins off towards another wall (-pretty much like a bullet inside a bulletproof room).

Obelisks

The red granite obelisk

Two obelisks were erected in front of the temple's pylon by Ramses II in the 13th century BC.
Only one of them remains standing! The other was transported, in 1819, to La Place de le Concorde in Paris, as a gift to King Philip Louis of France by Mohamed Ali (who ruled

Egypt

1805-1850 A.
D.

Ramses statues

Sitting Ramses II Colossus inside Luxor Temple
Ramses II also had erected in front of his pylon six granite statues of himself - two seated and four standing.
Only one of them, on the western side, is still in place.

Flanking the gate of the first pylon, which is 24m High, there are two seated colossi representing King Ramses II, seated on his throne, with all the royal features.
Both towers of this pylon were once decorated with relief’s depicting the Battle of Kadesh, fought between the armies

of

Egypt

and the Hittites, in present day Syria.

The 1st open court
The 1st open court has double rows of 32 papyrus bud columns.
To the right side of the open court there is an old triple shrine made by Queen Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III, built for the sacred boats of the “Triad of Thebes”.
To the left is the Mosque of Abou El-Hagag.