Marsh Chapel
Marsh Chapel is a Interdenominational church at 735 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, MA 02215. It is one of 363 churches in Boston.
Marsh Chapel & Religious Life is staffed by a team of religious leaders, professional musicians, and hospitality administrators. We work within the Boston University system to serve BU students, faculty, staff, and our broader community.
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735 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215Service times
- Sunday 11am
Phone: (617) 353-3560 · Website: https://www.bu.edu/chapel/
Marsh Chapel is part of the Ecumenical, union and community churches family of churches in The American Church Story. 11 congregations of the Ecumenical, union and community churches family gather across Massachusetts — 373 across the United States on The Church Map.
Union and community churches are the living proof that traditions can share a building, a pastor, and a table. In small towns across America they kept the doors open by becoming one congregation instead of three struggling ones — and no one had to stop being who they were.
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Latest from Marsh Chapel at Boston University's YouTube channel: Sunday Morning Worship Service at Marsh Chapel | September 20, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Marsh Chapel
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. Nearly half of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. 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: 47.9%
- Depression: 29.1%
- Poverty Rate: 26.9% (17.2–36.5%)
- Unemployment: 10.6% (4.2–17.0%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.8%
- Food Insecurity: 16.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.0%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Boston city is served by 162 churches — about one congregation for every 4,110 residents.
Churches near Marsh Chapel
- The Pub Church, Boston — 0.1 mi away
- BU Catholic Center — 0.2 mi away
- City Light Church Boston — 0.3 mi away
- Ruggles Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Lourdes Chapel — 0.4 mi away
- Marist Fathers Church — 0.4 mi away
- First Spiritual Temple — 0.4 mi away in Brookline, MA
- Church of Our Saviour — 0.5 mi away in Brookline, MA
- The First Church of the Boston Red Sox — 0.5 mi away
- Cambridgeport Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away in Cambridge, MA
More Ecumenical and union churches nearby
- Old South Church — 1.5 mi away
- Cru Boston — 2.2 mi away in Cambridge, MA
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