The Jedi Temple is a massive structure standing one kilometre high above the buildings of Galactic City, Coruscant, in an area where the Temple is largeley unobstructed to sight. 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.

• 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 is also a sacred place for contemplation.
• The first of the four smaller spires is, of course, the Jedi Council tower. This is where the Twelve members of the High Council sit and debate the various facets of the Republic. This is the next most important tower after the Temple Spire, since the High Council has overall decision-making powers over the whole Jedi Order .
• 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 advise to the High Council, or most any Jedi who requests it.
• 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.
• The fourth and last spire is the Reassignment Council Tower, which handles the organisation of work for young Jedi who have not been chosen by Jedi Masters to be Apprentices.

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.

The Temple itself is the home to the Jedi, where they life 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 independant transport for any Jedi who needs it. The recently constructed Temple Hangars house Delta-7 Jedi Starfighters, capable of transporting Jedi anywhere in the Galaxy.
• The rest of the inner Temple is basically just dormitories, meditation and traning 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 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.

In the Great Jedi Purge in 19 BBY, the Jedi Temple and all its subsidiary structures were destroyed by order of Chancellor Palpatine, along with all but two of the Jedi Order.

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 (see: Jedi Academy).