Bush Street Temple
- Style
- Moorish / Mudéjar
- City
- San Francisco, CA
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The Bush Street Temple at 1881 Bush Street was built in 1895 for Congregation Ohabai Shalome ('Lovers of Peace'), an Orthodox Jewish congregation, and designed by Moses J. Lyon in Moorish Revival and Venetian Gothic Revival styles. It later served as a Buddhist temple, a Baptist church, and, since 2003, an aged-care residential facility, while the San Francisco Go Club also used the space intermittently between 1936 and 1994.
the building
Arches from the Doge's Palace. The arcade across the front facade was copied directly from Venice's Doge's Palace, the source of the building's Venetian Gothic Revival flourishes layered onto its Moorish Revival design.
A redwood building painted as marble. The structure is built almost entirely of redwood, and its original interior was painted in trompe-l'oeil to imitate marble. The building originally carried a pair of elaborate towers that have since been lost, and it was extended with a new adjacent structure during a 2003 renovation.
the style
Architect Moses J. Lyon combined Moorish Revival and Venetian Gothic Revival styles, an unusual synagogue idiom that borrowed its arches directly from the Doge's Palace in Venice.
More on Moorish / Mudéjarthe architect
Moses J. Lyon designed the temple, completed in 1895.
significance
Designated a San Francisco Landmark on April 18, 1976, the building has held Orthodox Jewish, Buddhist, and Baptist congregations in turn and has operated as an aged-care residential facility since 2003.
nearby
- Tobin House
- Atherton House
- Japan Center (San Francisco)
- Theodore F. Payne House
- Congregation Sherith Israel
- Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption