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ARCHITECTURE

From the outside, the Jedi Temple appears as a high-raised Ziggurat building in a stepped design, with five spires built on top, one taller spire surrounded by four smaller ones. These spires symbolize a Jedi's climb to enlightenment. Its design suggests that of a fortress, but for more than forty generations, it has stood as a symbol of peace and justice.

  • The tallest Central Spire is known as the Temple Spire, and is traditionally the most important, since it holds the ancient texts of the Founding Jedi, and those scrolls saved from Ossus . The official status of Knighthood, and Master are given in this spire.

  • The first of the four smaller spires is Jedi Council Spire where the twelve members of the High Council sit and debate the various facets of the Republic. This is the most important tower because the High Council has overall decision-making powers over the whole Jedi Order , and, thus, quite a bit of influence in the Galactic Republic . The Jedi Council Spire stands southwest to the Temple Spire.

  • The next tower is that used by the Council of First Knowledge. This council takes care of matters requiring the wisdom of past Jedi Masters or Council members, and gives advice to the High Council, or most any Jedi who requests it. This spire stands northwest to the Temple Spire.

  • The third spire is the Council of Reconciliation Tower, which seeks to find peaceful settlements to political disputes at home on Coruscant or offworld in the Republic. This spire stands southeast to the Temple Spire.

  • The fourth and last spire is the Reassignment Council Tower, which handles the organization of work for young Jedi who have not been chosen by Jedi Masters to be apprentices. This spire stands northeast to the Temple Spire.


Each of these five spires carries high-gain communication transmitters, used to contact field Jedi or other offworlders as required by any of the four Councils. This explains the Temple's position high above any other buildings, where there is little or no interference with the antennas.


USE


The Temple itself is the home to the Jedi, where they live for the first years of their apprenticeship, and where they learn of the ways of the Force and train in the traditions of the Jedi Order.
  • The Jedi Archives are housed inside the Temple

  • The Temple also provides independent transport for any Jedi who needs it. The recently constructed Temple Hangars house Delta-7 and Eta-2 Jedi Starfighter s, capable of transporting Jedi anywhere in the Galaxy.

  • The rest of the inner Temple consists basically of just dormitories, meditation, and training areas. There are many different areas, including where Jedi Masters train Younglings and where Jedi learn and develop their skills with the Lightsaber , or areas that simply provide meditation space.

  • The Temple's network of communication systems is controlled in the computer room; it holds the Jedi beacon that allows speedy contact between the Temple and Jedi without having to use the HoloNet .


The Temple is surrounded by an extensive Precinct, which also offers docking space for larger spaceships, and contains other buildings built after the construction of the Temple.


THE JEDI PURGE

During the ''). The temple was rumored to be used as a prison for Jedi and lightsaber storage.

After the fall of the Empire, Luke Skywalker established a new Jedi Temple And Academy on Yavin 4 , and began to rebuild the Jedi Order.

In the limited-series comicbook, '''', which told an alternate history to Star Wars, the Jedi Temple is shown to be the personal residence of Emperor Palpatine , which is possible, taking into account Palpatine's contempt for the Jedi making him commit a final act of blasphemy by using the former sanctuary of his enemies as his home. This would also mirror how the Sith temple on Yavin 4 was used as both a Rebel base and later as a new Jedi training facility. However, since this comic series exists greatly outside of the canon, it cannot be confirmed that the temple was ever used for this purpose.

''''). The most likely causes of its destruction are the damage to Coruscant when the '' Lusankya '' is freed, the reborn Emperor's attacks or simply the Yuuzhan Vong terraforming. However, even if it ''was'' destroyed, one can clearly view it in the background in the 2004 DVD re-release of ''Return of the Jedi'' during the newly added celebration sequence on Coruscant, after the camera is done showing the toppling of the statues of Palpatine.


THE NEW JEDI ORDER

Five years after the events of '' The Unifying Force '' and 35 years after the Battle Of Yavin , the Jedi Temple was rebuilt on Coruscant by the Galactic Alliance as a gift to Jedi for their services and achievements during the Yuuzhan Vong invasion. The new temple is in the form of a massive pyramid made from stone and transparisteel that is designed to fit into the new look of Courscant.