The city houses the Kawasaki Daishi (or Heigen) Temple, the headquarters of the Chisan sect of Shingon Buddhism.
And the would-be perpetrator was not a jihadist, but the man who would become one of history's more infamous villains: the cult leader Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple, whose headquarters was then on Geary Boulevard in San Francisco.
The Salem, Mass.-based organization is now taking on Twitter, alleging that the social media giant engaged in religious discrimination when it declined to take action against a person who advocated setting fire to the Satanic Temple's headquarters.
Greaves said shortly after the Twitter threat a man was arrested at the temple's headquarters, kicking the house and trying to stab people with a makeshift weapon; the man was arrested.
In that place today can be found not only the main temple and headquarters of the Mormon church, one of the world's fastest growing churches, but also a number of Mormon-owned businesses, not the least being the ZCMI Center, an insurance company and a financial firm.
His temple is headquarters for the sect in Los Angeles.
Near Fukui is the Eihei temple complex, a headquarters of the Sōtō sect of Zen Buddhism, founded in the 13th century.
The unexpected apology for wartime complicity by the leaders of Myoshin-ji, the headquarters temple of one of Japan's main Zen sects, was issued 16 days after 9/11, which gave it a particular resonance.
Fire engines used water hoses to help force a way into the temple, the downtown headquarters of Korean Buddhism, which has been split by disputes between groups of monks.
They are smart in defining what is key: not just famous buildings like Unity Temple and the headquarters of the Johnson Wax Company but also the Larkin Building, in Buffalo, senselessly demolished for a parking lot in 1950, and, from 1924, the wonderfully named Gordon Strong Automobile Objective, an unbuilt design for a mountaintop planetarium reached by a spiral road.
