Swarthmore Friends Meetinghouse
Swarthmore Friends Meetinghouse is a Quaker church at 12 Whittier Place in Swarthmore, PA 19081. It is one of 6 churches in Swarthmore.
Swarthmore Friends Nursery School is a small private preschool for happy childhood living and learning.
12 Whittier Place, Swarthmore, PA, 19081Service times
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am · through
- Monday 9am
- Tuesday 9am
Swarthmore Friends 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 Swarthmore Friends Meetinghouse
Within a few blocks of these doors, about 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. About 1 in 10 the people here were born in another country. That is 2,100 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Unemployment: 7.6% (2.1–13.1%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Swarthmore borough is served by 3 churches — about one congregation for every 2,169 residents.
Churches near Swarthmore Friends Meetinghouse
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Victoria Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away in Springfield Township, PA
- Swarthmore United Methodist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Swarthmore Presbyterian Church — 0.6 mi away
- Wallingford Presbyterian Church — 0.9 mi away in Wallingford, PA
- Blue Church — 0.9 mi away in Springfield, PA
- Tree of Life Church — 0.9 mi away in Springfield, PA
- Princeton Presbyterian Church — 0.9 mi away in Springfield, PA
- Church of Saint Kevin — 1.1 mi away in Springfield, PA
- Chambers Memorial Presbyterian Church — 1.3 mi away in Rutledge, PA
More Friends churches nearby
- Providence Friends Meeting — 1.7 mi away in Media, PA
- Springfield Friends Meeting — 2.4 mi away in Springfield Township, PA
- Chester Friends Meeting — 2.7 mi away in Chester, PA
- Darby Friends Meeting — 4.9 mi away in Darby, PA
- Middletown Friends Meeting — 4.9 mi away in Lima, PA
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