Even the most casual Star Wars fans are familiar with the Jedi Temple on Coruscant.
But did you know there were actually nearly fifty Jedi Temples, academies, and enclaves
throughout the galaxy?
In this video we’ll be covering all of them in both canon and Legends.
Let’s start with the canon and the most obvious one, the headquarters of the Jedi
Order on Coruscant.
The temple was actually built on top of a Sith shrine.
The Sith once controlled the mountain on which the temple would one day be built, and when
the Jedi removed the Sith, they built their temple there in an attempt to remove the influence
of the dark side.
Unfortunately they were not completely successful, and the dark side slowly began to influence
and cloud the minds of the Jedi there, which eventually kept them from sensing the true
nature of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine during his rise to power.
When the Jedi were killed at the end of the Clone Wars, their temple was desecrated and
reformed into the Imperial Palace and the home of Darth Sidious.
Supposedly the very first Jedi temple was on Ahch-To.
We currently don’t know much about it, since it only appeared in the final moments of The
Force Awakens.
Even its status as the very first temple is up for debate by in-universe scholars.
We’ll have to wait until The Last Jedi to learn more about this one.
Another significant temple we can actually see on screen is the one on Ilum, where Jedi
younglings were taken to the trial known as the Gathering.
Ilum was the home of many naturally forming kyber crystals, which made it a naturally
important planet to the Jedi.
After the Clone Wars and the destruction of the Jedi, the temple on Ilum was taken over
by the Empire, who then harvested crystals for use in the Death Star and potentially
other weapons.
Also appearing in the Clone Wars is the Temple of Eedit on Devaron.
It was known as a site of personal rebirth to the Jedi, as it drew upon a vergence in
the Force.
The Order used it as a base during the Clone Wars, and it was abandoned after an attack
by Savage Oppress.
After the Clone Wars the Empire destroyed the temple and left it in ruins.
Luke Skywalker sought it out shortly after the Battle of Yavin and practiced his lightsaber
work there.
When the Galactic Civil War came to an end, Luke returned in his quest to learn all he
could about the Jedi before starting his own academy.
In Star Wars Rebels we’ve seen a Jedi Temple on Lothal.
We currently don’t know when or how it was built, but we do know it was a place where
Jedi would take their padawans to test whether or not they were ready to become Jedi.
It should be noted that Lothal is another planet rich in natural kyber crystals.
It was eventually discovered by the Empire as well.
The ruins of a Jedi temple have been seen in the main run of Star Wars comics on the
planet Vrogas Vas.
Very little is currently known about it, but Luke visited what was left of it in the comics
and was able to sense the presence of Obi-Wan.
The Great Library was a temple located on Ossus, but it was destroyed some time before
the Clone Wars.
This much information is canon thanks to the Complete Locations reference book,but there
is more Legends information I will cover once we move on from canon.
The final canon temple I want to mention is the one mentioned but not seen in The Force
Awakens.
It was used by Luke to train his new generation of Jedi until it was destroyed by his fallen
nephew.
In the film we can only briefly see evidence of the burning temple, but the novelization
of the movie does confirm the location as a burning temple.
Before moving onto the temples in Star Wars Legends, I should probably mention the Temple
of the Kyber.
While it very likely has some connection with the Jedi, and may have been a Jedi temple
at one point, that’s currently not confirmed.
Its main affiliation is with the Guardians of the Whills, not the Jedi.
We might have to wait and see to learn more here.
To fully understand the first temple I’ll talk about in Star Wars Legends, we need to
go over a little Legends history on the Coruscant temple.
Again, none of this is canon, but near the end of the Great Galactic War, the Sith Empire
ransacked the Jedi Temple.
Without a home, the Jedi relocated to Tython, which was the Legends home of the Jedi Order.
They built their new temple on the foundations of an ancient one.
The Great Temple, also known as the Massassi Temple or the Jedi Praxeum, was one of the
better known temples in Star Wars Legends.
The location itself is canon, as seen in A New Hope and Rogue One, however its status
as a Jedi temple is not.
Eleven years after the Rebellion used it as a secret base, Luke Skywalker returned to
establish his Jedi Academy there.
He trained his New Jedi Order there for fifteen years until the Yuuzhan Vong destroyed it.
As promised, I’ll now discuss the Legends history of the Great Library on Ossus.
It was built around five thousand years before the Battle of Yavin.
It was like an ancient version of the Jedi Archives on Coruscant, holding massive amounts
of information, including forbidden and dangerous artifacts.
The Dark Lord of the Sith Exar Kun attacked and destroyed the Library in the year 3996
BBY, seeking a Sith artifact.
Over three millennia later Luke Skywalker set up a new academy on the world, along with
new Archives to replace the Great Library.
That new academy on Ossus was meant to replace the Praxeum of Yavin 4.
The temple stood for over one hundred years until it was destroyed in the Massacre of
Ossus near the start of the Sith-Imperial War.
Also after the Yuuzhan Vong War, a new temple was erected on Coruscant on top of the old
one.
Most of the Jedi remained on Ossus at first, but over time the Order because to centralize
on Coruscant again, keeping the academy on Ossus open as a training ground for their
younglings.
The Hidden Temple was an old Jedi outpost on Arkinnea.
It was abandoned long before the Clone Wars, but as the Great Jedi Purge began, it was
reconstructed and used as a refuge for Jedi survivors.
Over one hundred years later, after the Jedi had rebuilt their order, they established
a second Hidden Temple on the planet Taivas, just in case another attempt at the extermination
of the Jedi was ever made.
This location came in handy after the Massacre of Ossus.
The Temple of Imperfect Repose was built over three hundred years before the Battle of Yavin.
The locals of its host planet Vaklin would bring offerings to the Jedi as thanks for
keeping the peace throughout the galaxy.
It was destroyed by the Empire after the Clone Wars.
The Dawn Temple was on the planet Spintir, built on Mount Tellec.
It was known as a place for the Jedi to reconnect with the Force if they were feeling lost.
It was known as the Dawn Temple because the Jedi that ventured there had often strayed
to the dark side, but would return to the light within its walls.
During the Mandalorian Wars a temple was built on Draay 2.
Its ruins remained into the Clone Wars when it became relevant again as the last known
location of a rare Sith artifact that the Jedi feared would fall into the hands of Count
Dooku.
There was a temple on the planet Auratera that was rebuilt many times thanks to wars
with the Sith.
The final construction was at the end of the New Sith Wars after the Jedi had regained
control of the planet and destroyed a Sith temple there, similar to what happened in
canon on Coruscant.
The Junk Temple was a rough recreation of the Coruscant Temple built by a survivor of
Order 66 named Kazdan Paratus.
I’m not sure we can call this one an actual temple, because Kazdan was straight up insane
and disturbed, but it’s also creepy and kind of cool, so I wanted to mention it.
We’re getting near the end of the temples on this list, which means these last few have
very little information on them or pictures of them, so just bear with me.
A temple on Alaris Prime served as an academy in the days of the Old Republic.
The ruins of the temple were rediscovered by Qui-Gon Jin and Obi-Wan Kenobi about seven
years before the events of the Phantom Menace.
A Jedi Monument could be found in the Clone Wars game on the planet Rhen Var.
The monument was part of a temple that served as the burial site of Ulic Qel-Droma.
A roleplaying sourcebook mentions the existence of a Jedi temple built on Iktotch about 3500
years before the Battle of Yavin.
Another RPG mentions the Temples of Vormijj on Pamorjal.
They were three temples built to guide the way to an ancient and powerful dark side artifact
called the Soulsaber.
By the time of the Galactic Civil War, they were considered a tourist attraction.
In The Old Republic MMO, a Jedi named Bay-Yon Siu claimed to have been from the Sanej Temple.
A short story called Getaway tells of an inconspicuous temple called the Sky Temple of Karsol, whose
makers hid its Force signature as a defense mechanism.
Okay now I’m shifting gears a little now to talk about enclaves and academies, which
were smaller sites, often used as satellite training or defense outposts, but I think
they belong on the list as well.
One of the more famous enclaves that also had an academy was the one on Dantooine from
the game Knights of the Old Republic.
It was here that Revan restarted his Jedi training until it was destroyed by Darth Malak
about four thousand years before the Battle of Yavin.
In response, the Jedi established a new enclave and academy on Telos IV, buried safely in
the polar regions of the planet.
The academy on Almas also had an enclave, and was set up over one hundred years before
the Clone Wars as an unorthodox Jedi training camp.
It was built on an old Sith fortress and was destroyed in the Great Jedi Purge.
Taris was the location of the Jedi Tower, also known as the Taris Academy.
It was destroyed during the Mandalorian occupation of Taris during the Mandalorian Wars.
A small praxeum was built on Arkania that was able to train house about twenty students
at any given time.
On Ambria there was a small compound where Nomi Sunrider trained with Jedi Master Thon
which would one day be known as the Ambria Jedi Enclave.
Even Mustafar was the home to one.
And Jedi enclaves or academies were mentioned on Alpheridies, Baltimn, Bespin, Bpfassh,
Corellia, Cularin, Dathomir, Dorin, Genarius, Haashimut, H’ratth, Kamparas, Obro-skai,
Shedu Maad, Socorro, Teya IV, and Truuine.
And that’s all of them!
Every Jedi Temple mentioned in both Star Wars Canon and Legends material!
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And is there anything I left off you think I should have mentioned?
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