Richmond Friends Meeting
Richmond Friends Meeting is a Friends (quaker) church at 4500 Kensington Ave in Richmond, VA 23221-1827. It is one of 584 churches in Richmond.
Richmond Friends Meeting is located in the City of Richmond, Virginia. We are a diverse community of seekers united in dedication to testimonies, but not bound by any creed. We are “un-programmed” meaning there is no conventional program to our worship. We have no designated minister, pre-arranged prayers, sermons, or hymns. We gather in silence awaiting an ever deepening awareness of the Spirit.
Serving since 1795 · Part of Friends General Conference
4500 Kensington Ave, Richmond, VA, 23221-1827Service times
- Sunday 9:30am · weekly
Phone: (804) 358-6185 · Website: https://www.richmondfriendsmeeting.org/
Richmond Friends Meeting is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 23 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Virginia — 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 Richmond Friends Meeting
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. 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 lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 31.8%
- Depression: 23.5%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
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