Reflection, Prayer, and Meditation Spaces

The Gathering Space for Spiritual Well-Being (The Gathering Space) and connected meeting rooms in the Center for Well-Being are home to 25+ student organizations and community members for prayer, mediation, and reflection on campus. Given increasing student need and national data highlighting the growing importance of faith and spirituality for college students, we have increased the number of prayer, reflection, and meditation spaces across campus.

As our campus and community continue to navigate health and wellness crises, students with closely-held religious identities face additional burdens of living their truth safely as they practice their religious obligations and build community around their religious identities. We continue to deepen our infrastructure for spiritual and religious diversity and interfaith and pluralistic engagement opportunities at UMBC, and Student Belonging is excited to maintain these additional prayer spaces on campus.

If your department or college is interested in exploring space options to expand and support prayer needs on campus, please contact Matt Hoffman, Director with Student Belonging, at matt.hoffman@umbc.edu.

*If your department or college is interested in exploring space options to expand and support prayer needs on campus, please contact Matt Hoffman at matt.hoffman@umbc.edu.

Spaces for Reflection, Prayer, & Meditation at UMBC

The Gathering Space is designed for congregational or large group prayer, as well as other faith-oriented, mindfulness, or spiritual well-being activities. The Gathering Space can accommodate up to 40 people praying at a time. There are also smaller connected conference rooms that can be used for individual and/or small group needs. UMBC ID or sign-in is required to access the available spaces. Be sure to check the Gathering Space’s hours.

This space is designated only for prayer, reflection, and meditation and can accommodate up to three people praying at a time. The space is equipped with a small bench and prayer mats. UMBC ID is required to access the space using a card reader. This space is available during Library building hours.

This space is designated only for prayer, reflection, and meditation and can accommodate up to three people praying at a time. The space is equipped with a small bench and prayer mats. UMBC ID is required to access the space using a card reader. This space is available according to the Information Technology Building hours of 7:30 a.m. – 11 p.m.

The Maxine Tracy Wellness and Lactation Room inside the Women’s, Gender, & Equity Center is designated as an accessible space for prayer, reflection, and meditation. This space is available during Center Hours. This space can be reserved by ​​contacting Center staff at 410-455-2714 or womenscenter@umbc.edu. This space is also available outside of the Center’s hours of operation when The Commons is open through reservations only.  Please reserve the Center using this form.