Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting (CHFM) offers its beautiful social room, worship space, classrooms, and private showings of the “Greet The Light” Skyspace installation, helping you create and host a memorable event to celebrate your loved ones and honor important milestones in your life.
Rental rates : Our rates are based on the room, the size of the party, and whether food will be served. Large events involving food include the cost of an event facilitator (which we provide) in the rate. There is a refundable security deposit.
| For more information on renting at CHFM, please contact our rental administrator at secretary@chestnuthillquakers.org |
Worship Room: This ceremonial room with benches located on the first floor and surrounded by windows on three sides, is ideal for weddings, memorial services, and Bar and Bat mitzvahs. Private SkySpace showings take place in this room.
Capacity: 120 seated on benches.
Social Room: This spacious room with exposed wooden trusses and windows facing the backyard and Fairmount Park, is a perfect setting to host larger events, meetings, and receptions. Capacity: 96 seated at 60-inch round tables or 150 seated auditorium style.
Kitchen: Located right next to the social room is a state-of-the-art kitchen with gas cooktop, two ovens, large refrigerator, commercial dishwasher, and more than 200 square feet of stainless-steel counter tops. Capacity: 15 standing and working; no seating.
Gathering Room: A cozy library with a fireplace located near the foyer and worship room. Windows look out onto the back lawn, where you can see rocks from an old quarry and part of Fairmount Park. The room is furnished with Windsor chairs and benches. Capacity: 20.
Foyer: This is the main entrance hall of the meetinghouse. The space can be used free of charge for a guest registration table with information about your event, and as a place where your guests can greet friends. Easels with directions to other parts of the meetinghouse are available for you to customize signage and instruction.
Committee Room: Also on the first floor, the committee room is the smallest rental room in the meetinghouse. Capacity: 6-8 seated at the table or 12 auditorium style.
FDS 1
FDS 2
Second Floor Classrooms: First Day School (FDS) 1, 2, and 3 Three classrooms, are accessible by elevator. They are minimally furnished to allow for different uses. Twenty folding chairs and a table are available for use in these classrooms. FDS 1 and FDS 2 are connected by pocket doors that can be opened to create a single larger space. Capacity: 12 in each room (20-24 if the pocket doors between FDS 1 and 2 are opened).
FDS 3
Parking: Free parking is available with access via Mermaid Lane.
