Albany Friends Meeting House

Albany Friends Meeting House is a Quaker church at 727 Madison Avenue in Albany, NY 12208. It is one of 146 churches in Albany.

727 Madison Avenue, Albany, NY, 12208

Website: https://albanyquakers.org/

Albany Friends Meeting House is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 22 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across New York — 355 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 Albany 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. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. 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.

  • Poverty Rate: 37.1%
  • Social Isolation: 39.6%
  • Depression: 23.1%
  • Food Insecurity: 19.9%
  • Housing Insecurity: 15.8%
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 10.7%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.

Albany city is served by 75 churches — about one congregation for every 1,329 residents.

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