Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting
You Are Welcome Here – Please worship with us
Due to COVID-19, in-person Meeting for Worship is suspended until further notice. We will continue to meet together on-line, using the Zoom application. If you are interested in attending our on-line, virtual Meeting for Worship, please email Dan Zemaitis, the office secretary, at [email protected].
Join us for worship at 11 AM every Sunday at 1515 Cherry St, Philadelphia, PA 19102.
Parking: See here for parking.
Childcare & youth program: We provide childcare for very young children during our meeting for worship, and a youth program for children age five and up.
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About Our Meeting (Church)
Central Philadelphia Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends is a large, urban Quaker meeting, diverse in many ways, and we welcome visitors.
- We worship by gathering and silently waiting for the Spirit to guide us. Learn more about Quaker worship here.
- We celebrate diversity and welcome people from all walks of life. We are a welcoming and affirming congregation for LGBTQ people.
- We are also involved in various activities to further peace and social justice.
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- What's happening: See the Google calendar to the right for meeting activities and click Events in the menu above for highlighted events.
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The Committee on Worship and Ministry of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting is pleased to announce that, in support of our Meeting community, we will be offering a weekly online Meeting for Worship at 11 am on Sunday mornings. While we recognize that this will not be the same as gathering in person, we feel it is the right course of action in this time of national emergency. Our hope is to make our virtual worship experience as simple and as close to normal as possible.

.O will talk about her transforming love ministry on June 6, 2021. This is part of a series, Meeting for Worship with Attention to Ministry, sponsored by the Committee on Gifts and Leadings.
June 6, 2021
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Meeting Times
11:00 AM on Sunday Mornings
What's New

.O will talk about her transforming love ministry on June 6, 2021. This is part of a series, Meeting for Worship with Attention to Ministry, sponsored by the Committee on Gifts and Leadings.
June 6, 2021
This is a video recording of Yoko Koike Barnes's presentation on her Fair Trade Ministry, offered during the meeting for worship with attention to ministry via Zoom on March 4, 2021.
Friends South West Burial Ground, and its two affiliated Quaker meetings -- Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, and Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia -- are shocked and saddened by the shooting incident which occurred during a burial at our grounds on March 4, 2021, resulting in the injury of two people. We offer our prayers to all those affected, to their families and to the community.

Berta Britz will speak about the spiritual grounding of her ministry, Hearing Voices: Healing, Wholeness, and Justice.
This is a pdf file of Margaret Fell's pamphlet Women's Speaking Justified, giving scriptural argument for women ministers.
This brief history of and introduction to the faith and practice of Quaker ministry was prepared as a handout by Steven Davison for Quaker Ministry session of the Quakerism 101 course conducted in 2020 and 2021, sponsored by Central Philadelphia M