Which pharaoh oversaw the construction of the Gem-pa-Aten Temple?

Located to the east of one of the four main temple enclosures that made up the immense Karnak Temple Complex are the remains of a temple built by Pharaoh Akhenaten (previously named Amenhotep IV). This temple was called Gem-pa-Aten (“The Aten is found”). It was built by Akhenaten for the new religion that he started during the first five years of his reign before he moved the capital to Akhetaten (el- Amarna) in Middle Egypt.

Akhenaten was the founder of the Amarna Period in which he changed the state religion from the polytheistic Ancient Egyptian religion to the Monotheistic Atenism. This religion was centered around the worship of the Aten, an image of the sun disc. Akhenaten, the second son of Amenhotep III, changed his name from Amenhotep (Amun is pleased) to Akhenaten to reflect the change in his religion beliefs.

The transitory period of Akhenaten was quite interesting because it departed completely from the nature of Egyptian art and religion up to that time. Akhenaten totally abandoned the worship of Amen in favor of the Aten or visible reverence to the sun disc.

With the death of Akhenaten and the actions of his successor, Tutankhamen, who was followed by Ay at the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty (Thutmosid Dynasty), the Gem-pa-Aten Temple was finally destroyed around 1320 BC.