Bernard Maybeck's 1910 church on Dwight Way is one of the great pieces of Bay Area architecture — a National Historic Landmark that most visitors to Berkeley walk past without noticing. Maybeck combined American Craftsman style with Byzantine Revival, Romanesque, and Gothic elements in a way that should not work but emphatically does, the whole thing unified by the quality of the materials and the seriousness of the craftsmanship.
The exterior features a square floor plan under great crossed trusses, with factory sash windows and ornamental Gothic tracery on the same facade. The interior, if you can get inside (services are held on Sundays), is even more remarkable: a vast, light-filled hall crossed by timber trusses, with the congregation sitting under a space that feels both intimate and monumental.
Maybeck remains underappreciated outside California. This is his masterpiece, and worth going out of your way to see.