<p>What is the religious scene at Penn and in philadelphia? Is there a protestant and catholic church, mosque, synagogue, etc. on campus, or nearby?</p>
<p>basically everyone is jewish</p>
<p>it took me all of 10 minutes to deduce that during my visit. The big hint was the 10 guys in my tour group with fro's and yarmulkes. I meant more along the lines of places to could go to attend services.</p>
<p>Philly is a big city and Penn is a big university.</p>
<p>I am sure you can find whatever you need on or off campus.</p>
<p>There's a catholic church on 38th street</p>
<p>Philly is a catholic city... theres churches and catholic schools all over.</p>
<p>My daughter is a Freshman. We are practicing Catholics. How hard is it for her to find other Catholics on campus to have some one to walk to Mass with?</p>
<p>She says the Newman (sp?) center is weird.</p>
<p>She also says most of her friends are Jewish and very cool and nice.<br>
Please enlighten me.</p>
<p>I'm not catholic (protestant), but around here the catholic churches allow everyone to mass and communion. I especially like this around Christmas and Easter. Do most local churches have a similar policy?</p>
<p>There is a fairly big mosque up at 45th and Walnut. Not sure if many Penn students attend, but there are certainly Muslim student groups, who I imagine have some sort of arrangement for attending services and so on.
There's a crazy Baptist church up at around 52nd and Baltimore too...now that's a fun experience for anyone who gets the urge to experience something new.</p>
<p>I'm quaker- I know Penn was founded by quakers and their teams are called quakers but are there really any quakers there?</p>
<p>Here is a list of all the places of worship in West Philly. It's quite extensive: <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/chaplain/%5B/url%5D">http://www.upenn.edu/chaplain/</a> and click on "Area Houses of Worship."</p>
<p>You can also click on "Map to several Campus Religious Resources" to see where everything is on campus.</p>
<p>In short, no matter what religion you are, there is a place for you to practice that religion in Philadelphia. My Catholic friends all went to St. Agatha St. James (38th and Chestnut) for mass.</p>
<p>With regards to Quakers - I don't think they comprise a sizeable part of the population, but I did have friends at Penn who were Quaker.</p>
<p>thnx. great help :)</p>
<p>Thnx. Thats really helpful!</p>
<p>they have quakers in australia?</p>
<p>Yeppies- i'm quaker- and I also went to a quaker school!</p>
<p>"She also says most of her friends are Jewish and very cool and nice.
Please enlighten me."</p>
<p>Jews are cool and nice. ;)</p>
<p>(and since it was brought up, one of my best friends is Quaker, so they do exist)</p>