Hestia Didn’t Have A Particular Temple Devoted To Her

One of the interesting facts about Hestia is she had very few temples devoted to her, despite being such a well-known deity. She really had very few statues built in her honor because it was believed that she embodied hearth fire. As the scholar Aristotle once commented, "The sound of a crackling from a burning fire was Hestia's welcoming laughter," the idea that the goddess of the hearth embodied both domestic and sacrifice flame spread widely.

Hestia is worshiped in a variety of accessible, everyday places, despite the fact that there aren't many effigies of her and few temples specifically dedicated to her. Hestia was exalted and sacrifices were made to her at all temples, each of which had its own hearth, a practice never before observed in the worship of other Greek deities.

There were only two locations where her cults were established: Sparta and Ermioni. In both public and private hearths, or "Prytaneion," people in the city worshiped her. The flame was always kept alive in these public and private spaces. A family's domestic and spiritual care failed when a hearth fire was accidentally extinguished at home. A breach of responsibility to the larger society occurred if it took place at a public hearth. However, if necessary, the flames could be doused by rituals and then re-lit following the purification, renewal, and completion ceremonies.