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Temple of the Lakes

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The Temple of the Lakes, originally named Temple of the Lakes, at Haraldsborg is a Hurmu temple and museum in Lausanne, South Lyrica, Nouvelle Alexandrie (formerly the capital of Stormark, then known as Haraldsborg). It is managed by the Order of the Holy Lakes. Founded in 1608, it was tasked with preserving Hurmu culture as best as it could within the Storish state until 1685, upon the collapse of the Storish state, when the Order of the Holy Lakes evacuated its archives, people and artifacts temporarily to Talenore before founding the Hurmu Trust Territory in 1689. The Temple was restored in 1699 after extensive renovations following the Hurmu Ruins Treaty between Hurmu and Nouvelle Alexandrie.

Dark green = trees/forest; light green = other type of garden vegetation

The temple grounds covers 2,023,428 square metres. A wall, one metre high, surrounds the grounds, with one gate house and gate allowing for access between the Temple and the rest of Haraldsborg.

The main temple building is built in the Hurmu pyramid style, covering an area of 600 m x 600 m. The pyramid is also 600 metres high. The construction was funded by the state oil company of the Jarldom of the Rose Cape, Róskapolje, which donated 19 billion rikskronur. As such, the building itself is less austere than in the traditional Hurmu style.

Many smaller buildings here belonged to the temple. There were apartments in the main temple building. Every resident had 30 square metres pro bono. Single households had 15 square metres extra. A household of two people had 60 square metres, a household of four people 120 square metres, and so on. Every resident was free to do what he or she would like within their apartment, subject to common sense and the lease contract. As such, most Hurmudans in Stormark moved here for cheap lodging in the main city, in an environment that allowed for the expression of their own culture and languages, and not be assimilated to the local one. At the time of evacuation in 1685, the Temple housed 13,992 people.

Following the evacuation, local Haraldsborgers looted whatever was left of the temple. Renovations of the temple occurred 1694–1699. It has since become a landmark in Lausanne.

The Templar Foundation is the charitable arm of the Temple/Museum, which helps, among other things, disadvantaged people of the Hurmudan minority in Nouvelle Alexandrie, with education scholarships, hardship pensions, and social gatherings. It has chapters all over Nouvelle Alexandrie.