The first Buddhist churches of any kind in the country were built in the Bay Area in the early 1850s by Chinese migrant workers who had come to the U.S. to work in the mining and railroad industries. The first Japanese Buddhist church in the U.S. was built in San Francisco much later, in 1899.Continue reading “The Gardena Buddhist church has endured for nearly 100 years despite challenges”
Sam Gnerre looks at the way we were in the South Bay
