Pulgas Water Temple

“San Francisco built Pulgas Water Temple as a monument to the engineering marvel that brought Hetch Hetchy water more than 160 miles across California from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the Bay Area…………. On October 28, 1934, the roar of Hetch Hetchy mountain water greeted everyone gathered at Pulgas Water Temple to celebrate its arrival. With vivid memories of the fire that had raged unchecked after the Great Earthquake of 1906, the city rejoiced in its new secure, plentiful supply of high quality drinking water. The frieze above the columns expresses the city’s joyful relief: “I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people.””  Quoted from SF PUC website.

Its a nice place for pretty much everything, including ceremony for a wedding.  If I was getting married, I would get married here except during the summer time (probably not during the hot weather months like on late June, July, or  earlier on September).   Imagine wearing a long coat, a heavy wedding gown  on your wedding day during a sunny summer day.   You get it?  You’d be sweating like a pig.  If you have to marry there during the summer time, then get married early morning (10am) or later in the afternoon (like after 3pm).

Look at a wedding I photographed last year here at Pulgas Water Temple.

Enjoy some of the photos.