Durham Quakers Local Meeting 2

Quakers meet in the heart of Durham City each Sunday 11.00 am - 12.00 pm in silent waiting. Each 4th Sunday of the Month we also have Children's meeting.
. We're only silent during our meetings for worship however, and we reach out to the local and wider community supporting a variety of charitable activities.

There are Quaker meetings all over Britain which offer a place where people can find a real sense of community and are free to challenge, question and explore their own beliefs, values and ideas. Many Quakers describe it as a spiritual home – a place of deep connections; a group of people bound together by an awareness of the sacred in all things and a desire to work together for a more just, peaceful and sustainable world.
From this shared experience, they seek to live lives built on principles of simplicity, equality, truth and peace. It is a faith and a way of life that is both timeless and contemporary.
Our unity as a worshipping and witnessing community is based on shared experience and shared practice, and not on shared forms of words. We experience divine presence, power and guidance in our worship and in our daily lives. Whilst we would not all use the same words to describe this guiding presence, by following it we find unity with each other and strength to act for justice, peace and truth.
You do not have to be a Quaker to attend a meeting. All are welcome.
To be a Quaker is to live one's life in a certain way, rather than follow any dogma or creed. This rests on the conviction that, by looking into their innermost hearts, people can have direct communion with God, or the divine or our highest good (people may prefer different language to describe their inner light). So, in meetings for worship, Quakers wait together, largely in silence. Occasionally someone may speak briefly when moved to.

Quakers tend to live simply; they do not condone discrimination; they aim for non-violent solutions to conflict; they have been prominent in work for disadvantaged people at home and abroad.

It is fundamental to the Quaker way to try to be open to new insights from whatever source, to tolerate different beliefs and practices, and to work for reconciliation wherever there is strife.

Durham is a Local meeting of Northumbria Area Meeting, which in turn is a part of Britain Yearly Meeting of Quakers, or the Religious Society of Friends. If you are curious you are welcome to come to one of our meetings.