St. Paul's Episcopal Church was founded in 1927 to give people an alternate site of worship to the overcrowded mission of St. Matthew's Church. The mission became popular among San Francisco residents moving south after the 1906 earthquake, and St. Paul's was erected to accommodate the growing number of worshipers. Since then, it has grown to encompass a close-knit congregation of followers from around the peninsula. The church holds strongly to Episcopal philosophy.