Friends Center

Friends Center Corporation, founded in 1972, owns and manages the Quaker building complex at 15th and Cherry Streets in Philadelphia.

Friends Center is a collaborative venture of the American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends, and Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends. Each partner holds an equal equity share in the corporation. The Friends Center Corporation Board of Directors is appointed by the three equity partners.

Friends Center seeks to be a place that nurtures awareness of the presence of God, enlivens work for peace and justice, and invites the highest aspirations of the human spirit.