Temples and churches

Reinhold from the Swiss alps is in his early 50s and serves as a coordinator and facilitator in the DAWN European Network (Discipling A Whole Nation). He writes about his friend who visited Malta to study the origins of human settlement:

A friend of mine went to Malta to study the world`s oldest traces of human settlement. They are temples. On Malta, there are as well about 400 remnants of Christian churches from all centuries. The churches have all been torn down from time to time by the frequent earthquakes, while the walls of the temples have stood over 7000 years (!). The secret: the churches have been built by normal square pieces of rock, same size, broken in quarries and prepared outside to make it fit.

The temples, on the other hand, have walls made from all sizes of rocks between 1 kg and 50 tons, just put together in a way that they fit with one another. They are not polished but stabilize each other by their corners and rough sides and edges. These rocks are called "pietra viva", living stones by the Malta people. The only thing they took out are the inclusions of smaller rocks and different material, but the shape of the rock is left unchanged.