Gold Base

The Gold Base is the informal name of the international headquarters of the Church of Scientology,^[1][2] located on a 500-acre (2.0 km²) parcel of land just outside of San Jacinto, California. It is located at or near 19625 Gilman Springs Road, Gilman Hot Springs, California 92583. The area is the home of Golden Era Productions, the media and publications division of the church, which is the largest of the many organizational units located there. David Miscavige and other top leaders of the church live and work on the Base.

Features

Notable buildings and features in Gold Base include:

• Upper Villas—RTC offices and housing, where David Miscavige and other high level Scientologists live and work
• BonnieView—L. Ron Hubbard’s fully-furnished mansion, still maintained and staffed in the belief that he will return in another body.^[11]
• Cine Castle—main film studio in the shape of a castle, for producing church A/V materials
• OGH buildings—Old Gilman House. Formerly “isolation” space for physically ill staff. Possibly now used for auditing or solo auditing.
• Del Sol—CSI offices, and auditing rooms for staff.
• Staff berthing—four buildings where staff live.
• Qual Gold—Headquarters for Qual Sec, in charge of “quality control” as per the Hubbard organization policies. In practice this mostly means facilities staff auditing and training.
• MCI—This large building is the staff dining hall, known as “Massacre Canyon Inn” from the building’s pre-Scientology name when the property was a resort.