Grand Temple's throne room

The Grand Temple's throne room was a great ceremonial chamber located within the Great Temple of Massassi, on Yavin 4. On the morning after the Battle of Yavin, the throne room housed the Royal Award Ceremony, during which heroes of the Alliance to Restore the Republic were saluted.

History
The throne room was a part of the Great Temple of Massassi, an edifice constructed by the Massassi people on the fourth moon of Yavin over 5,000 years before the Battle of Yavin.

Long after the temple was left derelict by its original builders, it was rehabilitated by the  Alliance to Restore the Republic, a freedom-fighting movement that liked to use preexisting structures on remote planets to better hide its activities against the Galactic Empire. After the Alliance led a successful assault on the Empire's Death Star battle station, the heroes of that victory were saluted in a Royal Award Ceremony that took place in the Temple's throne room.

Layout
The throne room was a vast chamber, the long sloped floor of which was paved with rectangular slabs. Its towering stone walls and high ceilings were carved with intricate patterns. At the back of the room, across from the entrance, there was a raised dais reached by a flight of stairs. Five large window-slits pierced the wall, and, when the jungle outside was in full bloom, the air within the chamber became filled with floral scents.

Appearances

 * A New Hope: The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy
 * Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
 * A New Hope Read-Along Storybook and CD
 * Star Wars: Princess Leia, Part I