In November 1978, Jonestown was the site where 909 members of a cult, the Peoples Temple, died from cyanide poisoning at the direction of leader Jim Jones. Today, the abandoned village is an overgrown jungle. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.

Where did the Peoples Temple go?

The Peoples Temple, the new religious movement which came to be known for the mass killings at Jonestown, was headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States from the early to mid-1970s until the Temple's move to Guyana in 1977.

Is the Peoples Temple still in San Francisco?

But 40 years after the mass murder-suicide at Jonestown — which claimed the lives of more than 900 members of Rev. Jim Jones' Peoples Temple, mostly African Americans from San Francisco — there is still no memorial anywhere in The City dedicated to their memories.