Wasn't the Jedi Temple destroyed? [HELP]

(If there is already a thread on this, please just re-direct me.)

For some strange reason, I seem to remember reading somewhere that the Jedi Temple was actually destroyed when the Empire took over. But now the Jedi Temple is supposed to appear in the backround of the Coruscant celebration at the end of ROTJ!
Maybe I'm wrong (and I hope I am), but I honestly thought that they knocked it down during/following Episode III, and then proceeded to build the Imperial Palace in it's place. Does anyone else remember that, or am I just confused on this matter?
Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

 

According to the Coruscant & Core Worlds sourcebook, Palpatine closed the temple (one has to wonder if Wallace already had info about the new DVD scene, hmmmm).

 

It is destroyed by the time of Traitor, and, for storyline continuity, most likely was actually destroyed during the raising of the Lusankya during the X-Wing books, explaining why the location could never befound by Luke, Mothma, etc.
So it probably wasn't destroyed at the end of the Clone Wars. Hmmm... OK.
But then why would Palpatine just close it, and not destroy it for what it symbolized?
And what happened to the Jedi Archives?
Do we know where the Imperial Palace WAS located if not in place of the Temple?
"Harder to answer these questions are... meditate on this I will."

 

That, or the Emperor had it destroyed in Dark Empire.

 

Well, better late than never.

 

It's a treasure trove of information and power; Sidious wouldn't want to destroy it so quickly without some snopping around first.



Anyone notce at the end of Shatterpoint, Palpatine entered the Jedi temple?

 

Being as Luke doesn't actively begin rebuilding the Jedi Order until the Jedi Academy trilogy (which takes place after both the Thrawn and Dark Empire trilogies) he probably didn't start searching for remnants of the old Order before that time. Thus, the Temple could easily have remained undisturbed until then.

I'm of the opinion that the Temple is destroyed during the events prior to Dark Empire; the NR is forced off Coruscant, and Imperial Centre becomes a battleground between the various Imperial factions. Entire sectors are laid to waste, so, IMO, the Temple gets caught up in all that.

The Temple is actually destroyed as of Union, since Luke has established a Jedi Headquarters building (the domed structure in which Kam and Corran fight, and later reintroduced in Dark Tide) on the Temple's foundations. Although, this would imply Luke discovered the location of the Temple at some point in order to base his new HQ atop the site of the old.

 

Here's some good discussion on the Temple- Fate of the Jedi Temple?

 

In Infinities, Palps kept it around as his "private residence". Of course, that was Infinities...

In Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter, standing on the rubble of the Temple was basically Maul's wet dream.