The International Friends Association of the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae is a non-profit Organization aiming at the international promotion, support, protection, preservation, maintenance of the monument and its surrounding environs.
We who have joined in assembly in the temple of the Apollo Epikourios at Bassae in Greece on the 14th of May 2014, having critically appraised our respective contributions on a level of mutual respect and understanding, resolve the following:
The Temple of Apollo Epikourios at the Arcadian Bassae is one of the greatest and most famous of antiquity. The monument rises imposingly on a natural plateau of the South side of Mount Kotilion, at an elevation of 1130 m. The Temple stands against the most sacred sanctuary of the ancient Arcadians, that of Lycaeon Zeus, and succeeded in the same location two, at least, older temples of the archaic period, and operated as sanctuary, under the regime of the ancient citizens of Figalea, for more than six centuries.
