S.D.E.S. Alvarado

Specialties

One of the Bay Area’s best kept secrets for your event, the SDES Hall enjoys easy access to the freeway, pristine facilities and are maintained to its best, to make sure your event shines!

Whether you are hosting a Wedding, Banquet, Anniversary, Birthday, Quinceanera we have 2 rooms available to fit your event.

These are some of the many features Hall offers:

2 Rooms available

Bottom Hall holds up to 400 people

Top Hall (The Elegant choice for your wedding) is all hardwood floor and with a stage holds up to 250 people

Well lit

Full kitchen for your cooking needs

Full Bar

Tables and Chair rentals

Top referrals to other vendors that meet the criteria of your event

Ample parking

History

Established in 1926.

Alvarado, was incorporated in 1959 as part of Union City. With a history of its own, the name originated from the then Governor Don Juan B. Alvarado in 1836. In 1926, almost one hundred years later, a small chapel was built by a group of local Portuguese celebrating the first Holy Ghost Festa.

The Sociedade do Divino Espirito Santo de Alvarado is an independent Portuguese Society, known as SDES of Alvarado. It was formally organized in April of 1926 with a membership of forty local Portuguese men. The organization has increased throughout the years to a membership of 400 men and woman of Portuguese descent. The members are residents of Union City, and from other neighboring cities, who share the devotion to the Holy Ghost.

The chapel where the first religious celebration of the festa was held was located behind St. Anne’s Mission Church. It was constructed of lumber from the original St. Anne’s, built in 1862, one of the oldest structures in Washington Township at that time. I