The Church Project’s blog

The Church at San Francisco has been sold to a condominium developer and is scheduled for demolition.

It gives away bread and clothing.

The Noe Valley Voice reported in October 2006 that

Demolition of the church would drop the final curtain on a building that started life as a one-screen temple to Hollywood. The theater opened in 1916 as the Searchlight, according to Cinema Treasures, a web site devoted to movie preservation. The theater, which showed German and Russian films in the 1930s and later on American movies, was also known as the Empress, the Lux, the De Lux, the Isis, the Princess, the Church, and the Rita. The Rita moniker eventually gave way to the Del Mar--until 1965 when the Holiness Temple in Christ purchased the building.

In 2006 the pastor tried to use this space to open a temporary shelter for homeless women and their children.

It did not win the support of the community.