This paper illustrates how community rebuilding is occurring in a gravely damaged, post-conflict society. Specifically, people in two villages in Tamil, Hindu, Jaffna, Sri Lanka, are using their “sense of place” and “place-making practices” or what I call here their “village-temple consciousness” or “village consciousness,” to maintain and rebuild their communities after war to make them, once again, places in which they feel a comfortable sense of belonging. Thus, Tamil Hindus use the concepts of “village” and “village-temple consciousness,” as models of or for, to reconstruct post-war communities on the Jaffna Peninsula, using a phenomenological ethnographic approach. Further, this study found that the memory of or nostalgia for village consciousness as it existed in the pre-war past is being used in the reconstruction of communities. An ethnography of the role of “place-making” in community rebuilding in Jaffna illuminates how communities after war must reconstitute themselves not just as physical locations but as places in which people can once again truly feel at home. An existential analysis shows ūr (village) nostalgia engages with everyday life and the reconstruction process in post-war Jaffna villages must be seen through spatial, sensory, temporal, discursive, and moral dimensions.