Taking a closer look at Ġgantija’s actual floor plan, you can see the traits that all Maltese megalithic temples share. Each has a concave façade that faces an elliptical front courtyard. Two central walkways lead into the two temples and form the “stems” of their “five-leafed-clover” shape. Because the temples’ interior rooms are so small, archaeologists speculate that only priests or elites entered these chambers. The front courtyards themselves possibly served as gathering places for big crowds (the congregation) during community rites. Illustration: Heritage Books, Heritage Malta.