Templvm Collegium - Looking for founders

[Procula Valeria Messalla]

Avete!

I am hoping to see if there is interest in founding a Collegium dedicated to the construction of a modern temple and physical altars dedicated to all the Gods and Godddesses of Rome. This project would raise funds and explore options for constructing a physical temple and altars in the near future.

Is anyone interested in helping draft our objectives and bylaws? I can't do this alone!

All ideas are welcome!

Valete!

[Gaius Cominius Laenas]

As discussed privately, I am honored to help with this project.

Here is the logo you requested. Let me know if you desire any changes.

[Gaius Cominius Laenas]

Citizens may support the TEMPLVM project by purchasing merchandise at our store: https://teespring.com/templvm#pid=369&c ... &sid=front

All funds will help support the Roman Republic and TEMPLVM.

[Gaius Cominius Laenas]

Valeria, I set up the web address you requested .

[Gaius Florius Lupus]

Salvete amici!

This is a great idea! I liked the concept of Cassia Longina's Roma Aeterna Facebook group to build a temple, but this whole group was born out of intolerance and hatred and still cannot overcome it. It is not blessed by Concordia, and without the blessings of the gods no temple can be built. If Cassia was wise, she would join this TEMPLVM COLLEGIVM and support our common goal.
Only such a collegium under the umbrella of our Republic will be able to make the temple a reality.
Gratias tibi, Valeria Messalla! This was the right thing to do at the right moment.
BTW Collegium Aedis Deorum would probably be a better Latin name for the Collegium. A templum was a sacred place in Latin, it does not mean the actual building on top of it. This was called aedes, e. g. Aedes Iovis Optimi Maximi Capitolini for the Iuppiter temple in Rome.

Valete!
C. Florius Lupus

[Gaius Florius Lupus]

[Procula Valeria Messalla]

[Gaius Cominius Laenas]

[Gaius Florius Lupus]

I am not sure, if a small altar can ever grow into the project I described.
Growing will not work for something of this magnitude.
We need to approach an already existing hotel/restaurant operation, present a business model, contact the tourism minisry and then build the temple on the land there.

So the first step is establishing a presence in Rome, contacting the tribus Ramnes of the CPR and grow our comunity to convince investors that there is a global market for this full-immersion experience into ancient Rome.
On the other hand an outdoors altar is cheap. It could be the first meeting point for a permanent community that meets regulary. And this is what means "establishing a presence" there. We just have to keep in mind that the temple will probably not be built around it, but somewhere else.

So yes, the temple will probably not grow out of this altar, but it might be a necessary step for consolidating a community.

By the way, is there any citizen among us who belongs to the tribus Ramnes of the CPR?

[Lucia Horatia Adamas]

L. Horatia Adamas C. Florio Lupo C. Cominio Laenati Proculae Valeriae Messallinae omnibusque S.P.D.

This sounds quite interesting, but I feel compelled to point out that a) there are several cultores in North America, b) that there already is a Roman-based B&B in Rome, and c) that the Italian authorities are not likely to welcome any religious edifice other than a Christian church, though possibly Jewish synagogues might be permitted. Other groups have run into brick walls on that one. The group in Sarmatia seems to have had better luck, but that, too, may not last.

As for other matters, methinks Templo (or possibly Templi) is better Latin; the first means 'for a / the temple' and the second, 'of a / the temple.' If 'aedes' (basic meaning: 'house') is chosen instead, please remember that it is normally used only in the plural, so 'aedibus,' and in the proposed regulations, the word 'dissolution' is badly misspelled as 'dissaloution.'

Valete!