ローエクスの彫刻家と建築家が作った神殿は、前570年から前560年の間に破壊された。この神殿は、前540年から前530年のポリクラテアヌスの神殿に取って代わられた。その中の1つの神殿では、155本の柱が林立しているのを見ることができる。また、この神殿には瓦の跡がなく、神殿が完成しなかったか、あるいは神殿が空に開かれていたことを示唆している。
それ以前の聖域は、ヘーラーへの奉納が定かではないが、ミケーネ時代の「家の聖域」と呼ばれるタイプであった<ref>Martin Persson Nilsson, ''The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and Its Survival in Greek Religion'' (Lund) 1950 pt. I.ii "House Sanctuaries", pp 77-116; H. W. Catling, "A Late Bronze Age House- or Sanctuary-Model from the Menelaion, Sparta," ''BSA'' '''84''' (1989) 171-175.</ref>。サモス島の発掘調査によって、紀元前8世紀から7世紀にかけての奉納品が発見され、サモス島のヘーラーが単にエーゲ海のギリシャの女神であっただけではないことが示された。この博物館には、アルメニア、バビロン、イラン、アッシリア、エジプトの神像や奉納品があり、このヘーラー聖地の評判と多くの巡礼者が訪れたことを物語っている。。サモス島の発掘調査によって、紀元前8世紀から7世紀にかけての奉納品が発見され、サモス島のヘーラーが単にエーゲ海のギリシャの女神であっただけではないことが示された。この博物館には、アルメニア、バビロン、イラン、アッシリア、エジプトの神像や奉納品があり、このヘーラー聖地の評判と多くの巡礼者が訪れたことを物語っている。オリンピアの最古の神殿と5、6世紀のパエストゥムの二つの巨大な神殿を所有していたこの強大な女神に比べると、ホメロスと神話のターマガントは「ほとんど...滑稽な姿」だとブルケルトは言う<ref>Burkert, p. 132, including quote; Burkert: ''Orientalizing Revolution''.</ref>。
Earlier sanctuaries, whose dedication to Hera is less certain, were of the Mycenaean type called "house sanctuaries". Samos excavations have revealed votive offerings, many of them late 8th and 7th centuries BCE, which show that Hera at Samos was not merely a local Greek goddess of the [[Aegean civilizations|Aegean]]: the museum there contains figures of gods and suppliants and other votive offerings from [[Armenia]], [[Babylon]], [[Iran]], [[Assyria]], [[Egypt]], testimony to the reputation which this sanctuary of Hera enjoyed and to the large influx of pilgrims. Compared to this mighty goddess, who also possessed the earliest temple at [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]] and two of the great fifth and sixth-century temples of [[Paestum]], the [[termagant]] of [[Homer]] and the myths is an "almost... comic figure", according to [[Walter Burkert|Burkert]].<ref>[[Walter Burkert|Burkert]], p. 132, including quote; Burkert: ''Orientalizing Revolution''.</ref>
Though the greatest and earliest free-standing temple to Hera was the [[Heraion of Samos]], in the Greek mainland Hera was especially worshipped as "Argive Hera" (''Hera Argeia'') at her sanctuary that stood between the former Mycenaean city-states of [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argos]] and [[Mycenae]],<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' 3.13.6</ref><ref>Her name appears, with Zeus and Hermes, in a [[Linear B]] inscription (Tn 316) at Mycenean [[Pylos]] (John Chadwick, ''The Mycenaean World'' [Cambridge University Press] 1976:89).</ref> where the festivals in her honor called ''[[Heraean Games|Heraia]]'' were celebrated. "The three cities I love best," the ox-eyed Queen of Heaven declares in the ''[[Iliad]]'', book iv, "are Argos, Sparta and Mycenae of the broad streets." There were also temples to Hera in [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]], [[Ancient Corinth|Corinth]], [[Tiryns]], [[Perachora]] and the sacred island of [[Delos]]. In [[Magna Graecia]], two Doric temples to Hera were constructed at [[Paestum]], about 550 BCE and about 450 BCE. One of them, long called the ''Temple of Poseidon'' was identified in the 1950s as a temple of Hera.<ref>P.C. Sestieri, ''Paestum, the City, the Prehistoric Acropolis in Contrada Gaudo, and the Heraion at the Mouth of the Sele'' (Rome 1960), p. 11, etc. "It is odd that there was no temple dedicated to Poseidon in a city named for him (Paestum was originally called Poseidonia). Perhaps there was one at Sele, the settlement that preceded Paestum," Sarantis Symeonoglou suggested (Symeonoglou, "The Doric Temples of Paestum" ''Journal of Aesthetic Education'', '''19'''.1, Special Issue: Paestum and Classical Culture: Past and Present [Spring 1985:49-66] p. 50.</ref>