Located in the heart of Hillman City at Orcas and Rainier, the Afrique Service Center is a community-funded cultural education center and social service organization focusing on the needs of South Seattle’s East African immigrant communities. Afrique’s direct services include family advocacy, domestic violence prevention, after-school programs for children, and Arabic reading classes, among other programs.
Afrique’s first floor houses the Masjid-Al-Karim, a Sufi mosque which provides a place of worship and a source for cultural education for East African Muslim families.
5700 Rainier Ave S., Suite A
tel. 206.380.8826 www.afrsc.org
A progressive congregation (Valley and Mountain Fellowship) and a grassroots arts organization (Community Arts Create) have collaborated to launch a dynamic new community space: the Hillman City Collaboratory.
The prominent storefront is in a beautiful historical building anchoring the neighborhood’s central intersection of Orcas and Rainier. The Collaboratory, or “co-lab,” includes a multipurpose meeting room, a kitchen, offices, and work-share space for artists and activists.
5623 Rainier Ave S
206-799-8428 hillmancitycollaboratory.org
Hillman City’s local, reliable pizza take-out joint, Eyman’s provides the basics at an affordable price — and may be Seattle’s only Halal pizza establishment.
Listed open hours are Monday 4pm-9:30 pm, and Tues-Sun 2pm-9:30pm.
5607 Rainier Ave S.
tel. 206.420.1349
With its giant willow tree, and rows of raised planting beds, Hillman City P-Patch is one of the Seattle P-Patch Community Gardens administered by the Department of Neighborhoods. Garden plots are tended by gardeners who rent the space from the P-Patch Program for an annual fee.
Visitors are welcome to stroll through the garden, but veggies and flowers belong to the gardeners that tend each individual plot. P-Patch gardeners regularly contribute surplus produce to the Food Bank.
tel. 206.684.0264