The Meeting is located at 5 Longfellow Park, off of Brattle Street, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, five blocks from Harvard Square. For worship, enter the meetinghouse, which is the building located on the right hand side of the driveway as you enter the Meeting’s property. On your left is the Friends Center, where you can find the meeting office, parlor, library, Friends Room, several classrooms (lower level and second floor), and living space for our Resident Friend and Center Residents (second and third floors).  Click here for directions and map.

Meetings for Worship are held Sunday mornings at 10:30am. Sunday evenings at 5pm, and Wednesday mornings (Mid-Week Meeting) from 8:30am to 10am.  Childcare is available for both Sunday 10:30am and 5:00pm meetings and by request for other worship times.

Other times for worship include:

• The first Sunday of the month from September to June at 10:30am we hold Family Worship in the Friends Center’s Friends Room, concurrent with meeting for worship in the meetinghouse.
• On Alternate Sundays, Teen-aged children hold worship at 10:30am in the Friends Center’s Committee Room.
• The third Sunday of every month, a group of Friends holds a meeting for worship, praying for peace in front of the Raytheon Technologies building in Cambridge.

Most meetings for worship last about an hour. A member of Ministry and Counsel is assigned to hold the meeting in prayer and sense when it is time to close the meeting, signaled by the shaking of hands. Mid-week meeting for worship, on Wednesday mornings, is scheduled from 8:30am to 10am, where you are invited to come to all or any part of the 90 minutes of worship.

If you are joining us for Sunday morning forum plan to arrive by 9:30am. If you are coming to attend meeting for worship only, plan to arrive about 10 minutes before the the worship starts in order to have time to find a seat and get settled.

On Sundays, parking is available on the Longfellow Park circle as well as all around the neighborhood. Cambridge resident parking restrictions are not enforced on Sundays. Other days of the week, Cambridge resident parking restrictions are enforced. And, even if you have a Cambridge resident parking sticker, you still need a special permit to park on Longfellow Park from 8am to 6pm, Monday through Saturday. After 6pm, on weekdays and Saturdays, anyone can park on Longfellow Park.

The Meeting does have a very small parking lot behind the meetinghouse. During our busiest times (e.g., Sundays), please reserve the Meeting’s lot for people with ambulatory challenges. We have three handicapped parking places — one in the lot behind the meetinghouse, one on the driveway, and one on Longfellow Park in front of the Meeting property.

Lastly, we have an agreement with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, adjacent to the Longfellow House at 113 Brattle Street, to use their lot for evening meetings and on Sundays. You need to obtain an official note from the Meeting office to place on your car’s dashboard in order to use that parking lot.

Our Meeting has two buildings — the meetinghouse and the Friends Center. The meetinghouse is where the large meeting for worship is held each Sunday morning and the Material Aid and Advocacy Program operates a clothing room in the basement. The Friends Center lower level includes bathrooms, the nursery, and three First Day (Sunday) school classrooms. The first floor of the Friends Center includes an all-gender bathroom, the parlor, the library, the Meeting office, the kitchen, and the large, multi-purpose Friends Room. The second floor includes the Committee Room and the Selleck Room. All three levels are accessible via an elevator. There is an underground tunnel between the lower level of the Friends Center and the basement of the meetinghouse.