Crystal Temple

The Crystal Temple is a sacred place where the Crystal Gems live. It is their base from which they plan how to protect humanity. Inside, the Temple itself is composed of several cavernous rooms, all of which are connected through the Crystal Heart and accessed with the Temple Gate. Built in front of the entrance of the Temple is a beach house which serves as Steven's home. The beach house was not built until after Greg Universe met Rose Quartz. The beach house that surrounds the entrance of the temple was built by Greg around the time when Steven was a toddler. The beach house was built to give Steven a safe home with normal human house rooms and utilities, such as a kitchen, porch, bedroom, bathroom, etc. as he was unable to use his abilities as a Gem yet, and thus Rose's room was inaccessible for a long period of time. The statue on the face of the Crystal Temple has eight arms; four arms are spread out, and the other four converge around the Temple's entrance on the figure's navel. Of the four spread-out arms, only the top-right arm still has an intact hand and the broken-off remains of the other hands can be seen sticking out of the beach sands in front of the Temple. The statue's remaining hand is currently used to launder Steven's clothes, with a washing machine and dryer installed upon it and a clothesline strung out between the fingers, and can be accessed via the Warp Pad on its palm. The method in which the washing machine gets its power and plumbing is unclear, described only by Garnet as "magic". The Temple Gate inside the beach house is able to access different places within the Temple. This is shown when Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, and Steven each open the same gate into different rooms. The way the door opens depends upon the room it is being connected to: for example, Amethyst's door has a curved line of bubbly goo; Pearl's door is a straight vertical line with a circle around the star on the door; and Garnet's door has two lines that split the door into three parts. Only a Crystal Gem that is able to utilize their abilities can open the gateway. On the Temple Gate, a star with gems corresponds with the members of the Crystal Gems. The pink gem belongs to Rose Quartz, the cream gem belongs to Pearl, the purple gem belongs to Amethyst, the red gem belongs to Ruby, and the blue gem belongs to Sapphire.