Jedi shrine

A Jedi shrine was a building (or room in a larger structure) used by members of the for meditation and contemplation of the Force's will. Jedi shrines came in thousands of varieties based on local cultures and purposes, but had some common elements:
 * The senganimie was the object of contemplation, used to help beings focus. The simplest senganimie could be a single grain of sand, and many had nature motifs.  Others were objects with historical significance or miniaturized reactors allowing Jedi to sense the fission or fusion of atoms.  A living senganimie, like Marekka's Daughter, was atypical but not unheard of.
 * The corae was an enclosed space at the heart of a shrine, which housed the senganimie. When a shrine was freestanding and smaller than a building, the corae might be as simple as a transparent veil placed over or around the senganimie—sheer enough to allow the senganimie to be seen, but still representing detachment from the external, mundane world.
 * Numerical and geometric symbolism was common in Jedi shrines. The circle was the most common shape for a shrine or a corae, representing the infinite nature of the Force; some shrines were linear (essentially a long, narrow rectangle) to represent the Force's connection to past and future.  Eight was another common number, a remnant of the .  According to Tirien Kal-Di, the eight-pointed star (effectively four crossed lines) or an eight-sided room represented the unity of four pairs of opposites: life and death, mind and body,  and, and light and dark sides.  Orthodox Jedi often placed a door on the side of the room representing the dark side, or left that side of the corae unwalled, to represent that the dark side, unlike the other seven opposites, was not a necessary reality of existence.

Jedi shrines existed all over the galaxy, wherever the Jedi had any presence of note. Many were located in the in the  on, built there by the first Jedi who laid the foundations of the Temple and visited occasionally by classes of s or Knights and Masters with more historical or philosophical bents.

When Jirdo Yushari founded the Church of the Jedi on Guudria, he ordered the construction of a Jedi shrine in every village he and his fellow Jedi controlled.

Appearances

 * Moments of Truth