Our preschool will be moving here for the fall, and I love this location…read more Not only is the leadership here friendly and welcoming, but their attitude about being a helpful part of the community is finally a strike in my personal history about the good organized religion can provide. This place has great groups meeting (Toasmasters!) here, wonderful spaces, and is in a cool 'hood. Parking is decent.

Great place for fellowship, worship and knowledge. Theres friendly people and a comfortable…read moreatmosphere. They have a great childrens ministry as well.

Love this place! I hail from Buffalo, NY and have a daughter that lives in Ballard. Whenever I am…read morevisiting, I try my best to get to the Sunday Service here. It is overflowing with wonderful people who never fail to enlarge my heart and my experience of others Thank you to this stellar community.

One of the best things about my 'hood ( - and that's saying a lot, as I live in BALLARD! -) is…read morethis little gem of a church. If you can, come on several different Sundays, as each Sunday has a different minister and each represents a different spiritual tradition. BUT: If you only want to try it once, be sure to go on the 3rd Sunday of the month to catch the magic of Jamal Rahman. He's one of the "Three Amigos". Come and ask us what that means! I dare you.... (You'll be glad you asked, I promise.) This church is filled with loving, cooperative and mutually respectful people, walking their walk and talking their talk. Truly interfaith, truly worth your visit. And the church is an historic building. Be sure to notice the stone marker out front while you're there. Parking is easy, with a good-sized private lot owned by the church, with spill-over available on the neighborhood streets.

Amazing community, wonderful Shrine room. I always felt very welcomed to the classes, to the…read more meditations and to the Cherenzi on Sundays. it is a Tibetan Budhist Monastery - what a better place to educate yourself and to learn to become a better, compassionate human being? May all be happy and may all be free!

I highly recommend the Friday Calm Abiding Meditation. It's open to the public. They have…read moreintroductory short sits starting at 7:00 PM where a few different short meditations are explained. At 7:30 the long sit sessions begin, consisting of three 20 minute sessions including a walking meditation around the front shrine/altar. I find these longer sits really force you to find your inner calm. I always leave feeling awake, energized, and ready to start my Friday night. Be sure to check their schedule: http://www.sakya.org/sakyacalendar.html Some Friday nights, they have special ceremonies (often not intended for those uninitiated into Buddhist practices) and the Calm Abiding Meditation is designated @Home.

Bethany Northeast is a healthy and vibrant church. We have been attending for seven months and felt…read morewelcomed and a part of the community from the first visit. I am 78 yr old, and I love attending a church with so many children and teens.

Only commenting for the lights!…read more We have our own beliefs and congregation but this show was so much fun. They have so much to do as well. A fun tunnel, train to see, snow falling, free cookies and cocoa, a playground, and little area to walk, PLUS the actual show! So much fun we will return for other years! It's like a mini warm beach but free and close!

They had an amazing Christmas lights show. It was Free and and it wasn't that busy. A perfect night…read moreto watch Christmas lights and walk around. Everyone was so nice there. They gave out free cookies and chocolate The boys loved the show while eating their cookies and the fake snow I will come here again next year.

Amazing Parish and School. Father Wiechert has done an exceptional job along with the amazing…read morestaff. As a musician/producer myself, I love how Mary Sims conducts her worship...that is one talented gal!

Wonderful community of families, teachers and staff providing a great Catholic education.read more

This is a place I've recently found while searching for help with overwhelming grief, to say they…read moreare welcoming is an understatement... While I expected they could help me with grief, I did not expect them to be able to help me fix my entire life, things I have been struggling with since I was a child, which is exactly what has happened. Words cannot express how much gratitude I feel for finding this place and these people.

This monestery is truly a jewel. The Buddhist nuns (women monks) who live, staff and teach at the…read moremonestery are welcoming, sincere and kind. As a level one meditation student, I have found the guided meditations and course instruction to be more beneficial than years of therapy in terms of providing insight into the causes of suffering and showing the way toward a peace of mind. I cannot recommend the free meditation courses highly enough. For the individual who is either brand new to or familiar with Buddhist teaching, the monastery offers an accessible and welcoming learning environment. It is indeed a refuge for those interested in deepening their understanding of wholesome and liberating teachings of the Buddha. The monastery will soon be in transition with a large renovation project starting in the Fall of 2019. In the meantime, it is beautiful and meticulously cared for. Warm lighting and clean, open spaces positively glow with elegant fabrics, inspiring and tasteful Buddhist statues, plants and flowers. The Buddha Jewel monastery is a blessed refuge of sanity, calm and quiet dignity in a chaotic secular world. I can't believe how fortunate we are to have this place located in Shoreline! If you don't live nearby, it is well worth the drive to attend the well-prepared and thoughtfully presented classes. If I had to describe the Buddha Jewel monastery facility and community in one word it would be "integrity". Care and thought and consideration abound in all aspects of the community outreach and education.