Adikhalamani, a Kushite king of Meroë, began the temple in the early 2nd century BC as a single-room chapel to Amun, about 9 miles (15 km) south of Aswan. Ptolemy VI, VIII and XII extended it on all four sides into a temple of Isis of Philae, and Augustus and Tiberius completed the expansion. The extended temple measures about 39 by 49 feet (12 by 15 m).
The Aswan High Dam threatened it, and Egypt donated it to Spain in 1968 in thanks for help at Abu Simbel. It was dismantled and rebuilt in Madrid from 1970 to 1972, with its three stone gateways reassembled in a different order. The article places the site in both Parque de la Montaña and Parque del Oeste.
It opened to the public in 1972 and has been listed as Spanish Cultural Heritage since 2008. The article gives no hours.
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