diff --git a/config/app/main/general/templates.json b/config/app/main/general/templates.json
index adf029866..1880ba7fd 100644
--- a/config/app/main/general/templates.json
+++ b/config/app/main/general/templates.json
@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@
           "baseUrl": { "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:variable:baseUrl" }
         }
       ]
+    },
+
+    {
+      "comment": "Renders the main template of all HTML pages. Other generated templates should be fed as input into this.",
+      "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:MainTemplateEngine",
+      "@type": "StaticTemplateEngine",
+      "templateEngine": { "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:TemplateEngine" },
+      "template": "@css:templates/main.html.ejs"
     }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/config/identity/handler/routing/views/html.json b/config/identity/handler/routing/views/html.json
index ea559f527..f094eb517 100644
--- a/config/identity/handler/routing/views/html.json
+++ b/config/identity/handler/routing/views/html.json
@@ -15,12 +15,7 @@
             "comment": "Will be called with specific templates to generate HTML snippets.",
             "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:TemplateEngine"
           },
-          {
-            "comment": "Will embed the result of the first engine into the main HTML template.",
-            "@type": "StaticTemplateEngine",
-            "templateEngine": { "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:TemplateEngine" },
-            "template": "@css:templates/main.html.ejs"
-          }
+          { "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:MainTemplateEngine" }
         ]
       },
       "templates": []
diff --git a/config/util/representation-conversion/converters/dynamic-json-template.json b/config/util/representation-conversion/converters/dynamic-json-template.json
index bce3384a5..2b0cce2ab 100644
--- a/config/util/representation-conversion/converters/dynamic-json-template.json
+++ b/config/util/representation-conversion/converters/dynamic-json-template.json
@@ -14,12 +14,7 @@
             "comment": "Will be called with specific templates to generate HTML snippets.",
             "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:TemplateEngine"
           },
-          {
-            "comment": "Will embed the result of the first engine into the main HTML template.",
-            "@type": "StaticTemplateEngine",
-            "templateEngine": { "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:TemplateEngine" },
-            "template": "@css:templates/main.html.ejs"
-          }
+          { "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:MainTemplateEngine" }
         ]
       }
     }
diff --git a/config/util/representation-conversion/converters/markdown.json b/config/util/representation-conversion/converters/markdown.json
index ebd6080fe..5a7b95df3 100644
--- a/config/util/representation-conversion/converters/markdown.json
+++ b/config/util/representation-conversion/converters/markdown.json
@@ -5,11 +5,7 @@
       "comment": "Renders Markdown snippets into the main page template.",
       "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:MarkdownToHtmlConverter",
       "@type": "MarkdownToHtmlConverter",
-      "templateEngine": {
-        "@type": "StaticTemplateEngine",
-        "templateEngine": { "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:TemplateEngine" },
-        "template": "@css:templates/main.html.ejs"
-      }
+      "templateEngine": { "@id": "urn:solid-server:default:MainTemplateEngine" }
     },
     {
       "comment": "Converts a container into a Markdown listing of its contents.",