Charlottesville Friends Meeting

Directions from US 29 in Charlottesville, turn east onto Barracks Road. Follow on Barracks, which becomes Preston, for about one mile uphill and down, to the intersection with Forest (one short block after the light at Rose Hill). Go left onto Forest about four blocks. The Meeting House is at the end of the street on right. Park in the adjoining Murray School lot.

Directions from I-64 take Exit 120 onto 5th Street towards Charlottesville. (5th St. becomes Ridge St.) At bottom of hill in downtown Charlottesville, turn left onto Preston Ave., then right onto Forrest (one short block before the light at Rose Hill). The Meeting House is at the end of Forest on right. Park in Murray School lot.  Maps.

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 Meeting for Worship (summer hours)

8:30 - 9:30 am

and

10:00 - 11:00 am

Childcare - available during the later worship hour

First Day School - September to May during the later worship hour

1104 Forest Street
Charlottesville, VA 22903
(434) 971-8859  Maps.

Calendar of events at our Meeting 

 

What’s New

Administration of Building Use Policy [read document]

RE Committee Recommendations for New Building Use [read document]

Friends United Meeting and Its Identity: An Interpretative History [read document]

 

Letter sent from Charlottesville Friends to Friends United Meeting – concerning discrimination against gay men and lesbians [read letter]

 

About Quakers and this Meeting

History of the Religious Society of Friends

The Religious Society of Friends, popularly known as Quakers, was founded in England by George Fox in the mid-17th century. It was during this period of Protestant Reformation that new sects eliminated various ecclesiastical structures, rituals, and creeds from their respective religious practices. The Religious Society of Friends, discarded all church forms as well as the paid priesthood. George Fox, speaking from his own spiritual experience, believed in an indwelling Divine Spirit in every person as the ultimate authority to direct human behavior. Those who agreed with Fox became the Religious Society of Friends.

 

History of the Charlottesville Friends Meeting

The first appearance of a Quaker family in Albemarle County was in 1742 but it was not until the mid-20th century that a Quaker presence became continuous. In 1938 Chic Moran met fellow student Werner Janney at the University of Virginia and the two began meeting "after the manner of Friends."  That gathering was disrupted by World War II and it was not until 1952 when two Quaker families, Keith and Mary Wiley of Earlysville and Chic and Fermine Moran of Free Union, began the meeting that became the present Charlottesville Friends Meeting. In 1963 the group was established as a Monthly Meeting. Over the years the location of the Meeting moved from Madison House at the University to, eventually, in May of 1982, the present location on Forest Street.

Organization and Other Information  The Religious Society of Friends has no paid clergy. Business is conducted and service is rendered within the Friends' Meeting by members of the Meeting itself  [learn more...]

Testimonies and Queries Our guiding traditions and continuities take the form of testimonies and queries [learn more...]

Quaker Sites on the Internet

·         Tandem Friends School Friends school in Charlottesville

·         Baltimore Yearly Meeting  Our Yearly Meeting

·         WWW Friends Links to all things Quaker

·         Pendle Hill  Quaker retreat and study center

 


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