The Temple of Minerva and the Hippodrome Stadium in Guatemala City, Guatemala. During the 1900s, a dictator of Guatemala attempted to revive worship of the greek gods, specifically Minerva, in that nation.
President Manuel Estrada Cabrera, a military dictator of Guatemala backed by the US and the United Fruit Company between 1898-1920, created Fiestas Minervales, or the Festival of Minerva, as a national holiday in Guatemala. He intended to restore worship of the Greek goddess in that nation. The baseball stadium in Guatemala City was known as the hippodrome and had an adjoining Temple of Minerva within sight of the field.
Every single major city in Guatemala had a Temple of Minerva constructed during Cabrera’s rule, and the ones in Baja Verapaz, Chiquimula, Jalapa, Xela, and Quetzaltenango are still standing.
Estrada was eventually deposed in 1920 by the legislature after being declared mentally incompetent, corrupt, and insane, however, personally, if I ever got my hands on some real power, I’d do something similar: restore worship of the Greek gods, or possibly revive Zoroastrianism.
