"The Temple of Concordia was built in the mid-5C BCE; it is the most massive, majestic and best preserved of the Doric temples in Sicily. It has a peristyle of 34 tufa limestone columns . . . it is not known to what deity it was dedicated and its present name is taken from a Roman inscription found nearby."
"Agrigento (Greek Akragas) was founded in 580 BCE by people from Gela who originated from Rhodes. . . The 5C philosopher Empedocles, a student of Pythagoras, was a native of Agrigento. The destruction of the temples was for long thought to have been caused by earthquakes but is now also attributed to the anti-pagan activities of the early Christians. Only the Concordia was spared when it became a church in the late 6C CE."
Unlike the Concordia, this temple dedicated to Hera was not consecrated by the Christians as a place of worship; its current state of dishevelment stands in testimony to this fact.
Quite possibly the Concordia was chosen to become a church due to its lack of any direct association with one of the pagan deities.
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