St. Louis Friends Meeting
St. Louis Friends Meeting is a Quaker church at 1001 Park Avenue in Saint Louis, MO 63104. It is one of 486 churches in Saint Louis.
As Friends, we seek to live our faith through the testimonies that shape our tradition: The Peace Testimony, The Testimony of Equality, The Testimony of Integrity, and The Testimony of Simplicity.
1001 Park Avenue, Saint Louis, MO, 63104Service times
- Sunday 10am
Phone: (314) 588-1122 · Website: https://newsite.stlouisfriends.org/
St. Louis Friends Meeting is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 536 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather 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 St. Louis Friends Meeting
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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,200 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: 36.4%
- Food Insecurity: 22.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 20.2%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 16.2% (5.6–27.0%)
- Obesity: 38.1%
- Depression: 25.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.4%
- Poverty Rate: 19.9% (9.7–30.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
St. Louis city is served by 405 churches — about one congregation for every 735 residents.
Churches near St. Louis Friends Meeting
- Saint Vincent de Paul Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- La Salle Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Raymond Maronite Cathedral — 0.3 mi away
- Saint John Nepomuk Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- Way of Life Church — 0.3 mi away
- Perpetual Life Church — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Mary's Assumption Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Glory To Glory Christian Church (Church Without Walls) — 0.5 mi away in St Louis, MO
- Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
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