San Francisco Zen Center, Buddhist meditation center in Hayes Valley, San Francisco, United States.

The San Francisco Zen Center is a three-story brick building in Hayes Valley with meditation halls, residential quarters, and community spaces for Zen practice. The rooms are arranged to support both formal practice sessions and the daily life of those who live and study there.

Shunryu Suzuki arrived from Japan in 1959 to lead Sokoji, a Soto Zen temple in Japantown housed in a former synagogue. When his Western students outnumbered the Japanese-American congregation, they incorporated the San Francisco Zen Center in 1962. In 1969 the center bought 300 Page Street, a 1922 Julia Morgan building, and moved there in 1970.

The name City Center refers to the 300 Page Street building, bought in 1969 after Sokoji's board asked Suzuki to resign. Its ground floor and basement hold meditation halls and public rooms, while upper floors house resident practitioners, a layout inherited from the 1922 Emanu-el Residence Club.

City Center occupies the former Emanu-el Residence Club at 300 Page Street, in Hayes Valley near the corner of Laguna Street. Meditation halls and public rooms are on the ground floor and basement, while resident students live on the upper floors, so visitors should keep to the areas open to the public. The building is reached on foot from nearby transit stops.

The 300 Page Street building was put up in 1922 as the Emanu-el Residence Club, housing up to 70 Jewish women on its upper floors, with public rooms below. When Suzuki's students bought it in 1969, that split between shared lower floors and upstairs living quarters carried over directly into Zen Center use.