{{Short description|Landform in the Grand Canyon, Arizona}} {{Use American English|date=February 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Deva Temple | image = Deva Temple from Bright Angel.jpg | image_caption = North aspect at sunset | label = Deva Temple | label_position= bottom | elevation_ft = 7353 | elevation_ref = <ref name="listsofjohn">{{cite web |url = https://listsofjohn.com/peak/71829 |title = Deva Temple – 7,353' AZ |website = Lists of John |access-date = December 25, 2020 }}</ref> | prominence_ft = 693 | prominence_ref = <ref name="listsofjohn"/> | isolation_mi = 1.56 | isolation_ref = <ref name="listsofjohn"/> | parent_peak = Brahma Temple (7,551 ft)<ref name="listsofjohn"/> | country = United States | state = Arizona | region = Coconino | region_type = County | part_type = Protected&nbsp;area | part = Grand Canyon National Park | range = Kaibab Plateau<br />Colorado Plateau | map = Arizona#USA | map_size = 230 | map_caption = none | coordinates = {{coord|36.1521473|N|112.0318004|W|type:mountain_region:US-AZ_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_ref = <ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis |id=3892 |name=Deva Temple |accessdate=2020-12-25}}</ref> | topo = USGS ''Bright Angel Point'' | rock = Coconino Sandstone | first_ascent = July 17, 1959 Harvey Butchart<ref name="mmto">{{cite web|url=http://cholla.mmto.org/hiking/grandcanyon/butchart/html/v1.html|website=cholla.mmto.org|title=Harvey Butchart's Grand Canyon Hiking Logs|accessdate=2021-01-11}}</ref> | easiest_route = }}

'''Deva Temple''' is a {{convert|7,353|ft|meter|adj=mid|-elevation|abbr=off|sp=us}} summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of northern Arizona, USA.<ref name="gnis"/> It is situated three miles south of the North Rim's Bright Angel Point, and towers {{convert|3,700|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} above Bright Angel Canyon. Its nearest higher neighbor is Brahma Temple, 1.5 mile to the south. Other neighbors include Zoroaster Temple 2.5 miles to the south-southwest, Manu Temple three miles to the west-northwest, and Buddha Temple, 3.5 miles to the west. Deva Temple was named by Henry Gannett, a geographer for Clarence Dutton, in following Dutton's practice of naming features in the Grand Canyon after mythological deities, in this case, Deva.<ref name="gnis"/><ref>Randy Moore and Kara Felicia Witt, ''The Grand Canyon: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture'', 2018, ABC-CLIO Publisher, p. 151.</ref> This geographical feature's name was officially adopted in 1906 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.<ref name="gnis"/> According to the Köppen climate classification system, Deva Temple is located in a Cold semi-arid climate zone.<ref name=Peel>{{cite journal| author = Peel, M. C. |author2=Finlayson, B. L. |author3=McMahon, T. A. | year = 2007 | title = Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification | journal = Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. | volume = 11 | issn = 1027-5606}}</ref>

==Geology==

The summit of Deva Temple is composed of cream-colored, cliff-forming, Permian Coconino Sandstone with a small, remnant Kaibab Limestone caprock.<ref>N.H. Darton, ''Story of the Grand Canyon of Arizona'', 1917, p. 32.</ref> The sandstone, which is the third-youngest of the strata in the Grand Canyon, was deposited 265 million years ago as sand dunes. Below the Coconino Sandstone is slope-forming, Permian Hermit Formation, which in turn overlays the Pennsylvanian-Permian Supai Group. Further down are strata of Mississippian Redwall Limestone, Cambrian Tonto Group, and finally Proterozoic Unkar Group at creek level.<ref>William Kenneth Hamblin, ''Anatomy of the Grand Canyon: Panoramas of the Canyon's Geology'', 2008, Grand Canyon Association Publisher, {{ISBN|9781934656013}}.</ref> Precipitation runoff from Deva Temple drains south into the Colorado River via Bright Angel Creek on its west side, and Clear Creek on the east side.

==Gallery== <div style="max-width: 500px;"> <gallery mode=slideshow> File:Bright Angel-temples.jpg|Deva Temple (left of center), Brahma and Zoroaster Temples (right) seen from the North Rim at Bright Angel Point File:Grand Canyon, Brahma Temple.jpg|Deva (left), Brahma (center), and Zoroaster Temples seen from North Rim File:Grand Canyon desde Grand Canyon lodge. 29.jpg|Deva Temple (left), Brahma Temple (right) File:Bright Angel Point.jpg|Deva Temple (left of center), Brahma and Zoroaster Temples (right) seen from the North Rim at Bright Angel Point File:Bright Angel, Deva and Angels Gate.jpg|Angels Gate (left) and Deva Temple (right) File:Deva Temple with Angels Gate.jpg|Wotans Throne, Angels Gate, and Deva Temple </gallery> </div>

==See also== * Geology of the Grand Canyon area

==References== {{reflist}}

== External links == {{stack|{{commons category|Deva Temple}}}} * Weather forecast: [https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=36.1522&lon=-112.0317#.X-azRTSSmUk National Weather Service]

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