Darby Friends Meeting
Darby Friends Meeting is a Quaker church at 1017 Main Street in Darby, PA 19023. It is one of 16 churches in Darby.
Darby Friends Meeting was organized in 1682 and meetings were originally held in the home of Darby founder John Blunston. The current meeting house (the third) located at 1017 Main Street was built in 1805 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1017 Main Street, Darby, PA, 19023Service times
First Sunday of every month 11:00 (as listed)
Website: http://www.darbyhistory.com/Darbyfriends.html
Darby Friends Meeting is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 71 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Pennsylvania — 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 Darby Friends Meeting
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of adults live with obesity, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. 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.
- Obesity: 45.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.8%
- Unemployment: 22.9% (13.9–31.9%)
- Diabetes: 18.6%
- Poverty Rate: 26.9% (15.9–38.0%)
- Child Poverty: 28.0% (10.7–45.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2022, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Darby borough is served by 7 churches — about one congregation for every 1,526 residents.
Churches near Darby Friends Meeting
- Blessed Virgin Mary Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt Zion Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt Zion United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Mt. Zion AME Church — 0.1 mi away
- Anglican Church of the Calvary — 0.2 mi away
- Faith Wesleyan Church — 0.2 mi away
- Church of the Lord Jesus Christ — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Ever Abundant Life Church — 0.2 mi away
- El Elyon Church of The Most High God — 0.2 mi away
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