The First Jedi Temple, also known as the Ahch-To Jedi Temple, is a place that appears in the 2015 film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It is an ancient Jedi Temple located on the planet Ahch-To, established and maintained by the Jedi Order. It was the first of many temples built throughout the galaxy, and one of the few that were not destroyed by the Galactic Empire. Luke Skywalker came to live there after his apprentice and nephew Ben Solo turned to the Dark side and destroyed most of his new generation of Jedi Knights.
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Sometime after the Jedi Order was founded, the Jedi built a Jedi Temple on the planet Ahch-To to serve as a Jedi academy to train new generation of Jedi Knights, it was the very first Jedi Temple ever built, apparently, even before the Clone Wars and the Jedi Purge respectively began, the Ahch-To Jedi Temple was abandoned by Jedi Order.
Sometime after the Jedi massacre, Jedi Master Luke Skywalker seek out the Ahch-To Jedi Temple (prior to his disappearance; Luke gave two pieces of the map to the First Jedi Temple's location, one to R2-D2, his astromech droid, and another to Lor San Tekka, a member of the Church of the Force, in case the the galaxy or his friends ever needed his help again), after most of the apprentices were killed by his nephew, Ben Solo, later known as Kylo Ren and the Knights of Ren, eventually he found the Jedi Temple on the planet Ahch-To, possibly seeking guidance from the spirits of the ancient Jedi on how to rebuild the Jedi Order, Luke would remain in hiding on Ahch-To, until the time was right for him to come out of exile.
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