Beth Sarim

Beth Sarim was a mansion built in 1929 in San Diego by Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses. The name means "House of the Princes" in Hebrew. It was intended as a future residence for biblical patriarchs like Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, whom Witnesses believed would someday rise from the dead. Russell used the house to accommodate visiting leaders and as a place for religious meetings. The mansion was also a symbol of the movement’s beliefs in the imminent coming of God's kingdom and the resurrection of the faithful. It remained a property of the denomination until it was sold in 1948.