That the Jedi had raised their Temple over the shrine had for a thousand years been one of the most closely guarded secrets of those Sith Lords who had perpetuated and implemented the revenge strategy of the Jedi OrderвЂ™s founders. The two of them were in SidiousвЂ™s lair, a small rock-walled enclosure beneath the deepest of the PalaceвЂ™s several sublevels that had once been an ancient Sith shrine. HereвЂ™s the passage that mentions the Shrine: This idea would be further explored in 2014вЂ™s novel Tarkin by James Luceno. One unfinished arc of The Clone Wars would have actually explored this Sith Temple and how it had clouded the minds of the Jedi High Council. But we wouldnвЂ™t really start to learn about the canon origins of this Jedi Temple until Celebration 2015вЂ™s Untold Clone Wars panel where it was revealed that underneath the main Jedi Temple you can find ruins from other worshipers of the Force and possibly even a Sith Temple. This is made clear in Episodes 1-3 and countless other pieces of media like The Clone Wars, etc.

So starting out we know by the time of the PT the Coruscanti Jedi Temple is the Headquarters of the Jedi Order. That story has had bits and pieces show up in tons of different material so IвЂ™ll go through it all to try and figure out the bigger picture behind this Jedi TempleвЂ™s origins.

In the EU the Coruscanti Jedi Temple was just sort of built around 4,000 years ago but in canon itвЂ™s clear that theyвЂ™ve actually tried to build a legitimate backstory to why this temple is here and how it got here. Ok so this article will likely be somewhat confusing but itвЂ™s an interesting topic that IвЂ™ve been curious about for a while.

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