Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting

Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting is a Catholic church at 20 East Mermaid Lane in Philadelphia, PA 19118. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 59 Catholic congregations in the city.

The Chestnut Hill Skyspace, Greet the Light, is a permanent art installation designed by the artist James Turrell and is part of the Chestnut Hill Friends Meetinghouse.

20 East Mermaid Lane, Philadelphia, PA, 19118

Service times

  • Sunday 10:30am

Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,107 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Pennsylvania — 18,927 across the United States on The Church Map.

From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.

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The community around Chestnut Hill 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. That is 2,100 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.

Philadelphia city is served by 1,051 churches — about one congregation for every 1,515 residents.

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