Bush Street Temple

The Bush Street Temple displays a Moorish Revival facade, defined by its twin onion domes and intricate, horseshoe-arched windows. Built in eighteen ninety-five as the Ohabai Shalome synagogue, the structure reflects a time when San Francisco’s Jewish community built ornate, exotic styles to assert their presence in the city. The congregation hired architects Moses and Charles Guth to design the space, which served as a focal point for worship for decades before the building shifted through multiple religious uses over the next century.