The Temple of Concord stood at the western end of the Roman Forum, backed against the Tabularium. The article names no architect and gives conflicting founders: Marcus Furius Camillus in 367 BC by legend, or Lucius Manlius Vulso in 218 BC by the archaeological record. The Senate ordered a rebuild in 121 BC under Lucius Opimius.
The Augustan-era temple was built under Tiberius from 7 BC to 10 AD. Its cella was 148 feet (45 m) wide and 79 feet (24 m) deep, with a Corinthian porch and capitals bearing pairs of leaping rams instead of volutes. The earlier Opimian podium was 134 by 98 feet (40.8 by 30 m).
It housed an art collection and hosted Senate meetings. It was reportedly near collapse by the eighth century and was razed around 1450, its stone burned for lime. Only the platform survives, partly under a road up to the Capitol.
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