page_title: Glide Memorial Church
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Glide Memorial Church / History
caption_attribution_description: English: January 1977 photo by Nancy Wong.Reverend Jim Jones (left) is given the Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian award at Glide Memorial Church, 330 Ellis Street by Reverend Cecil Williams (right) in San Francisco, California.
context_page_description: Glide Memorial United Methodist Church is a church in San Francisco, California, a United Methodist Church, which opened in 1930. Although conservative until the 1960s, since then it has served as a counter-culture rallying point and has been one of the most prominently liberal churches in the United States. Glide is also famous for its Gospel Choir and numerous social service programs.
context_section_description: In 1929, Methodist philanthropist Lizzie Glide purchased a parcel of land at the intersection of Ellis and Taylor Streets in San Francisco   and founded the Glide Foundation as a memorial to her millionaire cattleman husband, H.L. Glide of Sacramento.  Construction of Glide Memorial United Methodist Church was completed two years later. Glide purchased the Hotel Californian two blocks away and it was operated as a temperance hotel for decades. The foundation also built a dormitory for Christian women at U.C. Berkeley and a home for young working Christian women.
  Church leaders and members protested the proposed demolition of the International Hotel. Carlton Goodlett and Jim Jones received humanitarian awards on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1977 from Rev. Cecil Williams at the church.
caption: Jim Jones shakes hands with Rev. Cecil Williams at a ceremony presenting Jones, Carlton Goodlett and others with humanitarian awards on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1977
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "January 1977\rphoto by Nancy Wong\rReverend Jim Jones is given an award on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at Glide Memorial Church, 330 Ellis Street by Reverend Cecil Williams in San Francisco.", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop 7.0", "Image DateTime": "2003:12:05 17:47:52", "Image ExifOffset": "356", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "494", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "5479", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2047", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1364"}