Beyond the fifth and sixth pylons we come to the unique Akh-Menu of Tehutimses III, a Great Festival Hall known to the king as "Most Splendid of Monuments." It was built as a memorial and ancestral temple for Tehutimses and is a fabulous example of a hypostyle hall with two rows of ten columns, their shafts painted dark red in imitation of cedar wood, and a row of thirty-two square pillars decorated with various scenes. So holy was the atmosphere of this hall that, in the 6th Century CE Christian monks (who were actually responsible for a great deal of the destruction seen at Karnak), transformed this room into a church.