The UU Church of the Restoration members recently voted to be renamed Unitarian Universalists of Mount Airy. The new web address is: www.uumtairy.org

Click Here to read more about our plans.

Who Are We?

Some of us after coffee hour on a sunny Sunday. CLICK HERE for an enlargement.

We are a religiously diverse, LGBTQ+ embracing, intentionally multiracial and multicultural Unitarian Universalist faith community. In our congregation, we journey together in Love toward restoring spiritual wholeness. We were founded as a Universalist church in central Philadelphia in 1820 and relocated to the Mount Airy neighborhood in 1938. Join us for Sunday services each week in our air-conditioned sanctuary at 11 am and for our coffee hour afterward. Sunday school and child care are available. Summer services are followed by a potluck coffee hour.

We welcome people from any religious background who seek personal and spiritual growth in an extended family atmosphere.

Our denomination has no creed or doctrinal tests. All who are in sympathy with our beliefs and are willing to join us in supporting the goals of this church and the principles of the Unitarian Universalist Association are welcomed into membership.

Our building is now accessible to people with disabilities! It features a ramp to the main sanctuary and a wheelchair lift to the Social Hall beneath. Two accessible restrooms have been created: one on the main level of the Hale Building and another on the lower level of the sanctuary to make our Fellowship Hall more accessible to our congregants, visitors and renters. CHECK HERE for photos.

COVID Protocols

In line with CDC recommendations, COVID Act Now is now keeping track of statistics and making recommendations in a totally different way. According to the new system Philadelphia is comfortably in the lowest (of 3) risk category, Low. The Board has has discussed how we plan to adjust our internal guidelines to reflect this new system. For this weekend (May 22), we will be allowing up to 50 people in the Sanctuary, and we will have an in-person Coffee Hour. For those staying for the Budget Meeting, there will be pizza available, or you can bring some nourishment with you. We would like to continue serving coffee and tea after the worship service on Sunday after this weekend, if we get volunteers to serve as hosts. We do not have systems in place yet to have food at coffee hour (of course, you can bring something for yourself if you would like), but we might be able to add that next month if people volunteer to coordinate and help make it happen! If you would like to help make that happen, please contact Bruce.

Dress is casual, but know that we are celebrating our 200th Anniversary from 2020 to 2023, and we're striving to build a better here and now, based on our progressive church's legacy of social justice activism and racial integration. We believe that many faiths can worship together under one roof, and whether you believe in God, identify as a Humanist, pray through meditation or by donating your time to nonprofits or volunteerism, you are welcome here with us.