Evanston Friends Meeting House

Evanston Friends Meeting House is a Quaker church at 1010 Greenleaf Street in Evanston, IL 60202. It is one of 82 churches in Evanston.

The Quaker way is grounded in our awareness that:Each of us may experience the Divine directly;Each person’s experience of the Divine is unique; andThere is that of God in each person and all creation.

Evanston Friends Meeting grew out of the old Chicago Monthly Meeting, first called in 1864 and established in 1867, located on Indiana Avenue.

Serving since 1867 · Accessible parking

1010 Greenleaf Street, Evanston, IL, 60202

Service times

  • Sunday 10am

Phone: (847) 864-8511 · Website: https://www.evanstonquakers.org/

Evanston Friends Meeting House is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 9 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Illinois — 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.

Ministries at Evanston Friends Meeting House

  • First Day School

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The community around Evanston Friends Meeting House

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand 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.

  • Social Isolation: 31.5%
  • Unemployment: 6.5% (2.9–10.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.

Evanston city is served by 46 churches — about one congregation for every 1,592 residents.

Churches near Evanston Friends Meeting House

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