Friends Meeting
Friends Meeting is a Quaker church at 311 North Linn Street in Iowa City, IA 52245. It is one of 75 churches in Iowa City.
311 North Linn Street, Iowa City, IA, 52245Phone: (319) 351-2234 · Website: http://www.iowacityfriends.org/
Friends Meeting is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 10 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Iowa — 535 across the United States on The Church Map.
Friends were ahead of the whole church on abolition, on prison reform, and on the ministry of women, and they were ahead at real cost. Their practice of waiting on God together in silence is what the rest of the body borrows when words have run out.
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The community around Friends Meeting
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 5 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About 2 in 3 the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Poverty Rate: 63.7%
- Social Isolation: 40.8%
- Food Insecurity: 28.3%
- Depression: 28.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 18.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 17.1%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.0%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Iowa City city is served by 43 churches — about one congregation for every 1,698 residents.
Churches near Friends Meeting
- Living Word Christian Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- Sacred Collective — 0.1 mi away
- Wesley Student Center — 0.1 mi away
- Chinese Evangelical Church in Iowa City (CECIIC) — 0.1 mi away
- Gloria Dei Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Marys Church — 0.1 mi away
- Geneva Campus Ministry — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Grace Community Church - Downtown Iowa City — 0.2 mi away
- Old Brick Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
More Friends churches nearby
- Friends Church — 9.6 mi away in West Branch, IA