San Jose Betsuin Buddhist Temple
San Jose Betsuin Buddhist Temple is a Buddhist temple in Santa Clara County, California which is located on North 5th Street. San Jose Betsuin Buddhist Temple is situated nearby to Heinlenville Park, as well as near the suburb Japantown.Photo: EugeneZelenko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Buddhist temple
- Description: Buddhist temple in San Jose, California, United States
- Also known as: “Buddhist Church Betsuin”, “San Jose Betsuin”, “San Jose Buddhist Church”, and “San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin”
- Address: 640 North 5th Street, San Jose, CA 95112
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Heinlenville Park and Issei Memorial Building.
Heinlenville Park
Park
Heinlenville was a Chinese-American ethnic enclave in San Jose, California. Established in 1887 and demolished in 1931, it was the last and longest-lasting of San Jose's five Chinatowns. Heinlenville Park is situated 330 feet northeast of San Jose Betsuin Buddhist Temple.
Issei Memorial Building
Heritage site
Photo: David Sawyer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Issei Memorial Building is a heritage site, which is situated 790 feet south of San Jose Betsuin Buddhist Temple.
Japanese American Museum of San Jose
Museum
Photo: Myasuda, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Japanese American Museum of San Jose is located at 535 N. Fifth Street in San Jose, in the heart of Japantown. The museum's mission is to collect, preserve, and share Japanese American art, history, and culture with an emphasis on the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. Japanese American Museum of San Jose is situated 970 feet south of San Jose Betsuin Buddhist Temple.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Japantown and Luna Park.
Japantown
Suburb
Photo: BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Japantown, commonly known as J Town, is a historic cultural district of San Jose, California, north of Downtown San Jose. Historically a center for San Jose's Japanese American and Chinese American communities, San Jose's Japantown is one of only three Japantowns that still exist in the United States, alongside San Francisco's Japantown and Los Angeles's Little Tokyo.
Luna Park
Suburb
Luna Park is a neighborhood in San Jose, California. It is bounded by Old Oakland Road/13th Street, Berryessa Road/Highway 101 and North 17th Street. It is named after the Luna Park amusement park built by Audley Ingersoll's of Ingersoll's Amusement and financed by the San Jose Street Car Company as a way of bringing more customers to the area.
San Jose
Photo: Ed Schipul, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Often called "the capital of Silicon Valley", San Jose is the largest city in the Bay Area, 3rd largest in California, and the 12th largest city in the United States, with a population of over 997,000 residents as of 2024.
San Jose Betsuin Buddhist Temple
- Categories: church, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.35006° or 37° 21′ 0″ northLongitude
-121.89461° or 121° 53′ 41″ westElevation
69 feet (21 metres)Height
9.9 feet (3 metres)Operator
Buddhist Churches of AmericaOpen location code
849W9424+25OpenStreetMap ID
way 350497031OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchGeoNames ID
5331551Wikidata ID
Q125549847
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In Other Languages
From Indonesian to Japanese—“San Jose Betsuin Buddhist Temple” goes by many names.
- Indonesian: “Wihara”
- Japanese: “サンノゼ別院”
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