Isis Temple is a prominence in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, Southwestern United States. It is located below the North Rim and adjacent to the Granite Gorge along the Colorado River. The Trinity Creek an
Isis Temple is the landform on the right with the summit block (capstone). (Flat-topped & heavily forested Shiva Temple prominence to left)
Isis Temple from 2-mi SSW. From Dana Butte region upon (west)-Tonto Trail, south Granite Gorge. Right of Isis peak is the southwest cliff of the ridgeline: The Colonnade, at Tiyo Point; behind Isis peak is Tiyo Point, North Rim, and the Kaibab-Toroweap-Coconino Sandstone cliff sequence-(white-dark-white), and forested top, about 5.5-mi from Dana Butte, Tonto Trail.
View from southwest, (5.5-mi distant, from Pima Point, South Rim) 2-prominences, Isis Temple, separated from Buddha Temple-(and Buddha Cloister) by Phantom Creek (canyon) between Flat-topped Shiva Temple-(1.5-mi NW, same elevation as Kaibab Plateau), at photo left (note thicker unit of white, Coconino Sandstone, because of closer distance to viewpoint)
Isis Temple and Cheops Pyramid, from South Rim region
Shiva Temple is a 7,646-foot-elevation summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of Arizona, US. It is situated six miles north of Hopi Point overlook of the canyon's South Rim, about 2.5
Isis Temple
…Vishnu Basement Rocks The headwaters of Trinity Canyon lies at the south face of Shiva Temple (Grand Canyon). The eastern watershed north to south is Isis Temple with two side canyons of the western extension arms of the Isis Temple. The western watershed north…
South aspect, from South Rim
Aerial view from the west
Shiva Temple (left), Osiris Temple (right)
Geologic layers of Shiva Temple