The Dome of Deliverance existed within Jedha City, which was a sizable, fortified city situated on the frigid, arid satellite known as Jedha. Prior to the Galactic Empire's presence on Jedha, certain orphans were housed in this location, as well as at the Temple of the Kyber or the Waiting of Night. The Dome of Deliverance, along with the entirety of Jedha City, faced obliteration due to a concentrated superlaser discharge originating from a single reactor of the recently activated Death Star.