and technology to recreate the climate of Egypt. On July 15, 1975, the museum's conservators and stonemasons started reconstructing the temple. The temple exhibit opened to the public on September 27, 1978. Six other galleries of Egyptian art are near the entrance of the Temple of Dendur. One art critic noted, "Architect Kevin Roche has created a 'display case' as successful in what it sets out to do as the tiny temple itself." The Met named the wing containing the temple for the Sackler family. In 2019, the museum stopped accepting contributions from the family because of the Sackler family's association with the opioid crisis. The Met also decided to change the name of the wing. Architecture The Temple of Dendur is a modest example of a temple from the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods, with roots in earlier Egyptian architectural style. Like the other temples in the region, it was designed by local Egyptian architects and constructed of Nubian sandstone blocks with a pink hue. These men would have worked with Augustus's men to develop the temple's inscriptions and carvings. The stone carvers and builders who created the temple used millennia-old Egyptian architectural esthetics and methods. The temple complex was on a sandstone platform or terrace overlooking the Nile. A mud brick wall surrounded the temple complex, running 25 metres (82 ft) from the front gate to its rear and 8 metres (26 ft) tall. Now lost, the wall once controlled access to the temple complex. The gateway from the Nile was a monumental pylon that survives. The Egyptians called this gate "the Luminous Mountain Horizon". The pylon is decorated with relief carvings, has rounded tori at the corners and tops of its walls, and is capped with a cavetto cornice, a common design element in Egyptian buildings. A processional way or dromas led from the pylon across a wba (open court) to the temple building. The temple has a modest but well-executed design. It is long by wide by high. Because of the steep slope of the riverbank, the rear of the temple was set into the rocky bank. The tops and corners of its walls feature a rounded tori, traditional in ancient Egyptian design. The temple consists of three sections: the pronaos, the antechamber, and the sanctuary. The pronaos or porch is the front of the temple. It includes two highly decorated columns with composite tops depicting lotus