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Houses of Worship

The Colleges of the Fenway, a consortium of area colleges of which Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences is a member, provides a wide array of religious and support services to students, faculty, and staff of all religious backgrounds. This includes individual campus ministries, personal counseling, interfaith prayer groups, retreats, educational programs, and opportunities to volunteer in local agencies and projects.

Local Congregations

Baptist

  • Ruggles Baptist Church , 874 Beacon Street; 617.266.363
  • Baptist Church Temple, 88 Tremont Street; 617.523.7320
  • Marsh Chapel - Boston University, 735 Commonwealth Avenue; 617.353.3560

Buddhist

  • Cambridge Buddhist Association, Worship services held at: 75 Sparks Street, Cambridge; 617.491.8857
  • Boston Zen: Boundless Way Zen, First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street; 617.776.7416 x26

Contemporary Worship

  • Marsh Chapel - Boston University, 735 Commonwealth Avenue; 617.353.3560

Eastern Orthodox

  • Marsh Chapel - Boston University, 735 Commonwealth Avenue; 617.353.3560
  • Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral of New England, 514 Parker Street, Roxbury; 617.731.6633

Ecumenical

  • Marsh Chapel - Boston University, 735 Commonwealth Avenue; 617.353.3560

Episcopal

  • Marsh Chapel - Boston University, 735 Commonwealth Avenue; 617.353.3560
  • Trinity Church, 206 Clarendon Street, Boston; 617.536.0944

Hindu

  • Ramakrishna Vedanta Society Church, 58 Deerfield Street; 617.536.5320

Jewish

  • Temple Israel , Intersection of Longwood and Plymouth Street; 617.566.3960; info@tisrael.org
  • Hillel Council of New England, 1320 Centre Street, Suite 306, Newton Centre; 617.928.1488

Lutheran

  • Marsh Chapel - Boston University, 735 Commonwealth Avenue; 617.353.3560

Methodist

  • Columbus Avenue African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 600 Columbus Avenue; 617.266.2758

Muslim

  • Boston University, 735 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston; 617.353.3560
  • Islamic Society, GSU Basement, 775 Commonwealth Avenue; isbuact@bu.edu

Non-Denominational

  • Marsh Chapel - Boston University, 735 Commonwealth Avenue; 617.353.3560

Roman Catholic

  • Emmanuel College Chapel, 400 The Fenway, Room 003; 617.735.9777, 617.735.9703
  • Mission Church, 1545 Tremont Street; 617.445.2600
  • Saint Cecelia's, 18 Belvedere Street; 617.536.4548
  • Marsh Chapel - Boston University, 735 Commonwealth Avenue; 617.353.3560

On-Campus Groups and Resources

  • Interfaith, Upside Down Club, Christian Bible Study, c/o Student Activities; 617.732.2871
  • Muslim, Muslim Student Organization; 617.732.2955 

Off-Campus Groups and Resources

Catholic

  • Catholic Student Organization/Simmons College; 617.521.2434
  • Emmanuel College Campus Ministry; 617.735.9703

Interfaith 

  • Students of Faith, Wheelock College; 617.879.2301
  • Christian Fellowship, MassArt; 617.879.7720
  • Multi-Faith Coalition of Simmons; 617.521.2423  

Jewish

  • Hillel, Simmons College; 617.521.2137 or 617.928.1488 x300 

Muslim

  • Islamic Student Organization, Wentworth Institute of Technology;  ambrosej@wit.edu

Protestant

  • Campus Bible Study, Wheelock College; 617.879.1017 

Additional Groups, Resources and Organizations

Listed below are places of worship that have identified themselves as "open to and affirming of" persons who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered, either by official declaration within their denomination or by a statement of mission. Their congregations serve heterosexual people as well and are very open to having college students attend their services.

Baptist

  • Old Cambridge, 1151 Mass Avenue, Harvard Square; 617.864.9378 

Episcopal

  • Cathedral of St. Paul 138 Tremont Street; 617.482.5800
  • Trinity, 545 Boylston Street; 617.536.0944
  • St. John the Evangelist, 35 Bowdoin Street; 617.227.5242 

Jewish

  • Am Tikva, 50 Sewell Ave., Coolidge Corner; 617.883.0893
  • Temple Israel, Longwood & Plymouth Street; 617.566.3960 

Lutheran

  • University, 66 Winthrop St., Harvard Square; 617.876.3256

Presbyterian/U.C.C.

  • Church of the Covenant, Newbury Street; 617.266.7480

Roman Catholic

  • Dignity/Boston, meets at St. John's (above); 617.421.1915
  • Our Lady of Victories, 27 Isabella Street; 617.426.4448
  • Paulist Center, 6 Park Street; 617.742.4460 

Unitarian Universalist

  • Arlington Street, 351 Boylston Street; 617.536.7050 

United Church of Christ

  • Central Congregational, 87 Seaverns Avenue, JP; 617.524.3343
  • First Church of Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Harvard Square; 617.547.2724
  • Old South, Boylston Street; 617.536.1970  

United Methodist

  • Old West, 131 Cambridge Street; 617.227.5088