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

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
• Château Pèlerin (fr. "Pilgrim Castle"), also known as Atlit Castle, 1218–1291
• Sidon, 1260–1268
• Beaufort Castle, Lebanon, 1260–1268
• Jordan River Project, Israel, 1955 –
• Jordan River Project, Jordan, 1955 –

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

• Chastel Blanc, 1117–1271
• Tartus (Tortosa) and its fortress, Templars headquarters 1152–1188 and fortress held until 1291, including the Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa
• Areimeh Castle, from the early 1150s to 1187 with interruption 1171–1177
• Arwad island (Ruad), occupied in 1300–1302

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
• Kolossi Castle, 1306–1313
• 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

France

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

Portugal

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

Spain

Crown of Castile and Leon

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

Crown of Aragon

• Peniscola Castle
• Castle of Castellote
• Castle of Miravet
• Castle of Barbens
• Castle of Gardeny, in Lérida
• Commandry of Palau, in Palau-solità i Plegamans
• Castle of Xivert in Valencia
• 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.

United Kingdom

Sorted by county

England

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

Scotland

• Temple, Midlothian
• Castle Rainy and Templars' House, Turriff, Aberdeenshire
• Darvel, East Ayrshire

Wales

• Llanmadoc Church Gower – gift from the Duchess of Warwick

Ireland

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

Croatia

• Cesargrad (Kayersperg)
• Stari grad Ljubač- Castrum Liube (Ljubljana)
• Brckovljani,
• Fortress of Klis,
• Glogovnica
• Gora, Croatia
• Gornji Slatinik
• Hrvatska Dubica,
• Lovčić
• Našice,
• Nova Ves,
• Rassecha – Nova Rača
• Senj,
• Zdelja village near Virje
• Vižinada
• Vrana Fortress,

Italy

See a detailed list at Sedi templari in Italia

• 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

• Haneffe, Belgium
• Villers-le-Temple, Belgium
• Templštejn, Czech Republic
• Tempelhof, Germany
• Chwarszczany, Poland
• Grad na Goričkem, Slovenija

See also

• List of Knights Hospitaller sites
• Ordensburg

References