2023-2024 Student Handbook

Worship Places

 

This directory provides you with information on some of the Worship Places in the Cambridge and Boston areas, including the Lesley Prayer Room located in Room 3-091 in University Hall, and information on spiritual events in Cambridge

 

African Methodist Episcopal
St. Paul A.M.E.
85 Bishop Allen Drive, 617.661.1110
(Predominantly African American; all are welcome.)

Armenian Apostolic
Holy Trinity
145 Brattle Street, 617.354.0632

Baptist

American Baptist Church
Old Cambridge Baptist
1151 Mass. Avenue, 617.864.9275
(Welcomes Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals & Transgendered Persons)

Southern Baptist Convention
Hope Fellowship Church
16 Beech Street, 617.868.3261

Buddhist

Non-denominational
Harvard Buddhist Community – email hbcsangha@gmail.com to be added to their weekly mailing.
(Welcomes Lesley students)

Theravadin
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center
331 Broadway, 617.441.9038

Zen
Cambridge Zen Center
199 Auburn Street, 617.576.3229

Christian Scientist
First Church of Christ Scientist
13 Waterhouse Street, 617.876.7843
Reading Room, 23 Church Street, 617.876.7843

Eastern (Greek) Orthodox
Saints Constantine and Helen
14 Magazine Street, 617.876.3601

Episcopal / Anglican

Christ Church
Zero Garden Street, 617.876.0200

Chapel of the Society of St. John the Evangelist
980 Memorial Drive, 617.876.3037
(‘high church’ liturgy, welcomes students)

St. Bartholomew’s
239 Harvard Street, 617.354.8582
(Many families of Caribbean Island heritage; all are welcome)

The Crossing (meets at St. Paul’s Cathedral)
138 Tremont St., Boston, 617.482.4826 x318
(Dynamic and eclectic worship, large proportion of young adults)

Hindu

Ramakrishna Vedanta Society
58 Deerfield Street, Boston, 617.536.5320

Sri Lakshmi Temple
117 Waverly Street, Ashland, 508.881.5575

Islamic

Islamic Society of Boston (Cambridge)

204 Prospect Street, 617.876.3546

Islamic Culture Center of Medford

43 High St, Medford, MA 02155, 781.219.3068

Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center

100 Malcolm X Blvd, Roxbury, MA 02120, 617. 858-6114

Jewish

Harvard Hillel
52 Mount Auburn, 617.495.4695
(Welcomes Lesley Students)

Reformed
Congregation Eitz Chayim
136 Magazine Street, 617.497.7626
(Fully inclusive)

Conservative
Temple Beth Shalom
8 Tremont Street, Boston, 617.864.6388

Korean
First Korean Church
35 Magazine Street, 617.491.1474

Lutheran
University Lutheran (E.L.C.A.)
66 Winthrop Street, 617.876.3256

Mennonite
Mennonite Congregation of Boston
Meets at Harvard Epworth United Methodist Church
1555 Massachusetts Avenue, 617.868.7784

Metropolitan Community Churches
Metropolitan Community Church of Boston
Meets at Old West Church
131 Cambridge Street, Boston, 617.973.0404
(Queer centric Christian worship)

Presbyterian
First United Presbyterian
1418 Cambridge St. (Inman Square), 617.354.3151

Protestant, non-denominational
Memorial Church at Harvard University
One Harvard Yard in Harvard Square, 617.495.5508

Roman Catholic

St. Paul Church
29 Mount Auburn Street, 617.491.8400

St. John the Evangelist
2254 Massachusetts Avenue, 617.547.4880

Society of Friends (Quaker)
Friends Meeting at Cambridge
5 Longfellow Park, 617.876.6883
(Welcomes Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgendered People)

Swedenborgian
Swedenborg Chapel
50 Quincy Street, 617.864.4552

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon)
Cambridge First Ward
65 Binney Street, 617.517.6196

Boston Massachusetts Temple
86 Frontage Road, Belmont, 617.993.9993

Unitarian Universalist
First Parish Cambridge
3 Church Street, 617.876.7772
(Welcomes Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgendered Persons)

United Church of Christ (Congregational)

First Church in Cambridge
11 Garden Street, 617.547.2724
(Welcomes Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals & Transgendered Persons).

UCC and Disciples of Christ
Hope Central Church
85 Seaverns Avenue, Jamaica Plain, 617.522.0600
(Welcomes Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals & Transgendered Persons)

United Methodist

Harvard Epworth United Methodist
1555 Massachusetts Avenue, 617.354.0837

Grace Vision United Methodist

Korean United Methodist
80 Mt. Auburn Street, Watertown, 617.744.9557

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