The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
aka The Mormon Church [LDS]
This church features uniform traditional family-centered religious worship at many locations in the area. The LDS Church is the second largest religious organization in America.

Upcoming California LDS Events
These popular events fill up fast - advance booking required:
Mormon Battalion Days [Last Sat in Jan] - The Mormon Battalion Visitors Center in San Diego is the second most popular LDS historic site in America.
LDS General Conference [1st Weekend in APR & OCT] - Temple Square Utah.
Mormon Pageants [Summer] - The LDS Experience with Live Music and Drama.
California Mormon Helping Hands [Spring] - LDS Day of Service in California.
Woodside LDS Single Adult Conferences [Mid-Sep] - South Bay Regional Singles Conference
California Mormon Temple Christmas [DEC] - Live Christmas music programs and outdoor nativity exhibits.

Special Programs
Missionaries are available Sunday mornings to answer your questions about LDS programs and teachings.
Young Single Adults - Groups and Activities -
Family History Center - Research your family tree here with free access to many giant genalogical data bases.
Provident Living - LDS Family financial and legal aid, eduction, employment, physical, social and emotional support.
Boy Scouts - The LDS Church supports cub packs, scout troups and related scouting activities. Open to all young men ages 8-18.
Youth Activities - Weekly activity night, scouts, campouts, weekend dances, seminary gospel study, summer camps and more for youths 8-18.
Sports - Most LDS churchs have indoor basketball or volleyball recreation court that are used for informal and league games and practices on a weekly basis.
Relief Society (LDS Women's Organization) - very active in local service projects and promoting healthy family life.

Oakland California Temple
A familiar East Bay landmark is the 170-foot Oakland Temple. This modern Mormon five-spire temple design features a Oriental Motif and a exterior finish of white Sierra granite. On site is a public visitors' center with an inspiring reproduction of Thorvaldsen's Christus statue. Also on the grounds is the East Bay Interstake Center—open to any who wish to attend Sunday services.

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Temple Hill Symphony Orchestra
Temple Hill Symphony Orchestra - performs regular classical music concerts at the East Bay Interstake Center auditorium. See website for concert schedule.

San Francisco Area LDS Special Interest
Special Interest Groups and Congregations including Young Single Adult (YSA) Groups:
LDS YSA - Bay Area CA Region - YSA Groups, Activities and Related Resources
San Francisco BoyScouts - LDS Youth Activities

San Francisco Area LDS Institute of Religion
Provides opportunity for ongoing daily religious studies.
Antelope Valley College Institute of Religion - Young Single Adult group

San Francisco LDS Family History Center
San Francisco Stake Center
West Stake Center
East Stake Center

More Resources
Marin County LDS Church
Oakland LDS Church
San Jose LDS Church
San Mateo LDS Church

San Francisco Area LDS News Stories

San Francisco Area LDS Special Interest
Young Single Adult Groups:
LDS YSA - Northern California Region - YSA Groups, Activities and Related Resources

San Francisco Area LDS Institute of Religion
Provides opportunity for ongoing daily religious studies.
LDS Church Education System - Religious Study Resources.

San Francisco Area LDS Deseret Industries
Charitable goods exchange center.

The Brooklyn Saints - 1846

On 31 July 1846, the Brooklyn with nearly 180 mormon pioneers arrived in San Francisco Bay just three weeks after US Warships claimed this part of California for the USA during the course of the Mexican-American War. This group was led by 26-year-old Samuel Brannon whose name is found on of the major downtown streets today.

The Brooklyn Saints was the largest religious pilgrimage of its age, with twice the member, traveling nearly 24,000 months over a six month period from New York City on a charter boat. They would make both the first Anglo-American and also Mormon settlement in the Western United States.

This group of Mormon pioneers consisted of members from all across the northeastern United State who had sought a cost effective way to link with the main exodus of Mormons moving to the Great Salt Lake Valley in Utah. They predated the arrival of that group by nearly a whole year.

Upon their arrival Samuel Brannon is quoted of saying, "that darn flag is here too?" However, this group would readily sware allegience to the Stars and Stripes. Bro Brannon later traveled east to meet Brigham Young in the main exodus in an effort to convince him to lead the saints all the way to California where the climate was more pleasant.

Twenty men from this group attempted to start a farm called New Hope near Stockton.

With the discovery of gold in early 1848, many members abandoned the branch and rushed to work the gold fields. Many of their properties were acquired by newly arrived Chinese immigrants and this area would become Chinatown as we know it today.

Quite a few of the principle streets here still retain Mormon names - Brannon, Brooklyn, Joice, Glover, Pratt, Corwin, etc. Other than the Portsmouth School very few pioneer landmarks remain today.

San Francisco California LDS Stake
Organized as the 99th Stake of the church - 10 Jul 1927 with W. Aird Macdonald as first stake president.
Stake Website -
Bay Ward - Pacific Chapel
Crystal Springs 1st Ward - Stake Center
Crystal Springs 2nd Ward - Foster City Chapel
El Camino Ward (Spanish) - Stake Center
Golden Gate Ward - Stake Center
San Francisco 6th Ward (Spanish) - Daly City Chapel

Facilities

San Francisco California LDS East [Tongan] Stake
Organized 10 May 1992 with Sione Fangu as first stake president:
Stake Website -
Peninsula 1st Ward - Tongan - Millbrae / San Mateo / Burlingame local area
Peninsula 2nd Ward - Tongan - San Mateo area
Peninsula 3rd Ward - Tongan - Menlo Park area
Peninsula 5th Ward - Tongan - Los Altos area
Peninsula YSA Ward - Tongan - San Mateo area
San Francisco 2nd Ward - Fijian - Millbrae area - 1st Fijian LDS church unit created outside of Fiji.
San Francisco 3rd Ward - Tongan - Millbrae
San Francisco 4th Ward - Tongan - Stake Center
San Jose 1st Ward - Tongan - San Jose / Cupertino

Facilities

San Francisco California LDS West Stake
Organized 24 Feb 1985 with Jeremiah I. Alip as first stake president.
Stake Website -
Half Moon Bay Ward - Moss Beach Chapel
San Francisco 5th Ward - Samoan - Stake Center
San Francisco 7th Ward - Chinese - Stake Center
San Francisco YSA Ward - 22nd Ave Chapel
Serramonte Ward - Tagalog - Brunswick Chapel
South San Francisco Ward - Stake Center
Sunset Ward - 22nd Ave Chapel

Facilities