who built the mortuary temple of queen hatshepsut
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut .Hatshepsut's chancellor, royal architect Senenmut oversaw the construction of the temple.[3] Although the adjacent, earlier mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II was used as a model, the two structures are nevertheless significantly different in many ways. Hatshepsut's temple employs a lengthy, colonnaded terrace that deviates from the centralised structure of Mentuhotep’s model – an anomaly that may be caused by the decentralized location of her burial chamber.[1] There are three layered terraces reaching 29.5 metres (97 ft) tall. Each story is articulated by a double colonnade of square piers, with the exception of the northwest corner of the central terrace, which employs proto-Doric columns to house the chapel. These terraces are connected by long ramps which were once surrounded by gardens with foreign plants including frankincense and myrrh trees.[3] The layering of Hatshepsut's temple corresponds with the classical Theban form, employing pylons, courts, hypostyle, sun court, chapel and sanctuary.