Great Friends Meeting House
Great Friends Meeting House is a Friends (Quaker) church at 21 Farewell St in Newport, RI 02840-2563. It is one of 38 churches in Newport.
21 Farewell St, Newport, RI, 02840-2563Service times
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10am · through
Phone: +14018460813 · Website: http://newporthistory.org/properties/great-friends-meeting-house
Great Friends Meeting House is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 5 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Rhode Island — 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 Great Friends Meeting House
Within a few blocks of these doors, about 1 in 10 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is two thousand 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: 10.6% (4.8–16.4%)
- Social Isolation: 30.8%
- Depression: 23.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Great Friends Meeting House
- Keys Memorial Church of God — 0 mi away
- Saint Pauls United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- United Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Clarke Street Congregational Church — 0.1 mi away
- Community Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Joseph's Church — 0.1 mi away
- Zion Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Central Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Seventh Day Baptist Meeting House — 0.2 mi away
- Newport Community Church — 0.2 mi away
More Friends churches nearby
- Friends Meetinghouse — 3.6 mi away in Jamestown, RI
- Quaker Meetings Mattapoisett Friends — 12.8 mi away in Westport, MA
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