Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting is embarking upon an extraordinary outreach project: a new meetinghouse for Friends, Chestnut Hill, the Philadelphia region, and beyond.
This 21st Century meetinghouse will preserve a 350-year-old Philadelphia tradition begun by William Penn by offering a safe and welcoming place for people of all faiths to gather for quiet reflection and contemplation, worship, fellowship, education, and social action.
The new meetinghouse will demonstrate up to date ways of conserving energy and living in harmony with the natural environment. It will be an educational resource for green living and will offer the region's first Skyspace by distinguished Quaker artist James Turrell. The building will provide greater opportunity for the Meeting to perform community service and social justice work.
The Meeting calls on all who have an affinity with Quaker values — members, friends, neighbors, corporations, foundations — to share their interest and financial support to make this vision a reality.
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