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Glide Memorial Church

Glide Memorial Church is a nondenominational church in San Francisco, California, which opened in 1930. Since the 1960s, it has served as a counter-culture rallying point, as one of the most prominently liberal churches in the United States.
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Methodist
  • Description: church in San Francisco
  • Also known as: “Glide Memorial United Methodist Church”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Boeddeker Park and Curran Theatre.

Park
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, more formally known as Father Alfred E. , is an urban park in the neighborhood of . This 1-acre park was renovated and reopened in 2014, especially intended to serve the needs of people in the surrounding neighborhood who experience amongst the highest levels of poverty in the city.

Theater building
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The , located at 445 Geary Street between Taylor and Mason Streets in the Theatre District of , , opened in February 1922, and was named after its first owner, Homer Curran. is situated 620 feet northeast of Glide Memorial Church.

Museum
Photo: Magnus Manske, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a modern and contemporary art and nonprofit organization located in , . SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art, and has built an internationally recognized collection with over 33,000 works of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts. is situated 3,100 feet east of Glide Memorial Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tenderloin and Civic Center-Tenderloin.

Quarter
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The is a neighborhood in downtown , in the flatlands on the southern slope of , situated between the shopping district to the northeast and the office district to the southwest.

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As the name implies, the Civic Center is the primary center of government within , housing many important civic institutions. Aside from its official duties, it also moonlights as a cultural center with many fine museums, theaters, opera houses, and symphony halls located here.

Glide Memorial Church

Latitude
37.78523° or 37° 47′ 7″ north
Longitude
-122.41147° or 122° 24′ 41″ west
Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)
Open location code
849VQHPQ+3C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 358805518
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­methodist
Geo­Names ID
5352510
Wiki­data ID
Q5569568
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Japanese—“Glide Memorial Church” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “葛莱德纪念教堂”
  • Japanese: “グライドメソジスト教会”
  • Japanese: “グライドメモリアル教会”

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Nearby Places

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Glide Memorial Church”. Photo: Figlinus, CC BY-SA 4.0.