The Propylaea, the monumental gateway to the Acropolis of Athens, was designed by Mnesikles, who was appointed in 438 BC. Plutarch also identifies him as the architect of the Erechtheion. The article names no client and places the building within Pericles' Building Program. It gives construction as 437 to 432 BC, and the project was abandoned unfinished in 432 BC. The page has no infobox.
The article calls the style Doric, with a hexastyle central hall, Ionic interior columns and tristyle wings. It uses mainly Pentelic marble, with dark Eleusinian limestone in the base courses and wall panels. It mentions marble beams about 20 feet (6 m) long.
Later it served as a Late Roman gate, a Byzantine church, a Frankish-era fortified residence and ducal palace, and an Ottoman powder magazine and battery that caused damage. Restoration began in the 1830s, and ongoing work has been underway since about 1975. The article gives no hours.
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