The temple complex of Mut stood along side the great temple of Amun in Thebes. Connected by a mile long pathway lined with ram-headed sphinxes. Today this area is known as Luxor and Karnak and only the main entrance and various parts of Amun's temple still stand.
The temples of Amun, Mut and Khonsu were built on a stretch of land reaching from the northern border of Luxor to the southern boarder of Karnak. Mut's precinct was called Asher. Mut's temple at Karnak was originally built by Amenophis III and consisted of a sanctuary, a hypostyle hall and two courts. (Later the Temple of Ramses III would share part of the grounds) The temple complex at Karnak was added to, dismantled, restored, enlarged and decorated over the centuries by Tutankhamun, Ramses II and III, Nectanebo, Alexander the Great and various noble Romans. Another temple to Amun would be built several centuries later in southern Luxor, only housing a chapel dedicated to Mut and Khonsu. During the height of Thebian power and prosperity, the Temples of Amun, Mut and Khonsu, were the most important temple complexes in all of Egypt.
map courtesy of Senenmut Hatshepsut
The remains of the Temple of Mut lie in heavily overgrown ruins today. The Avenue of the Sphinxes still makes it's way to Mut's gates, even though some of the rams are missing and most of them lay in crumbled heaps. Statues of the goddess Sekhmet that once lined the courtyard still stand, although most of them broken. And the reflective horse-shoe shaped lake still holds water and is the only thing that is as it was thousands of years ago.
More information about the Temples at Karnak and Luxor by Mark Millmore
festivals and feast days
about Mut