The original complex would have been 167 feet wide. The towers of the temple entrance would have each stood at 59 feet high, but only 16 and a half feet of it exist today as a result of quarrying.

Leading the procession into the Temple were virgins with lighted tapers in their hands, then the Most-holy Virgin, led on one side by her father and on the other side by her mother. The virgin was ...

she was taken from the Temple by the priests and elders and entrusted to Joseph as the guardian of her virginity. The Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple signifies her total dedication to God ...