Race Street Meetinghouse

Race Street Meetinghouse is a Quaker church at 1501 Cherry Street in Philadelphia, PA 19102. It is one of 1,755 churches in Philadelphia, and one of 2 Quaker congregations in the city.

1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19102

Race Street Meetinghouse is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 74 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Pennsylvania — 535 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 Race Street Meetinghouse

Within a few blocks of these doors, about 1 in 5 the people here were born in another country. About 1 in 20 travel more than an hour to work. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for these two thousand neighbors — 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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