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While meetinghouse design evolved over time to a standardization of the double-cell structure without explicit guidelines for building, the meeting house's reflective architecture revealed a deeper meaning. The meeting house design manifested and enhanced Quaker Testimonies and the cultivation of the Inner Light that was essential to Friends.
This is a list of Friends meeting houses. Numerous Friends meeting houses are individually notable, either for their congregations or events or for architecture of their historic buildings. Some in the United Kingdom are registered as listed buildings , and in the United States are listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Although meeting houses were constructed in the region as early as the city's founding in the 1680s, most were replaced by the nineteenth century. Frankford Meeting House was originally erected as a single-cell, three-by-two-bay structure. In 1811–12, a smaller two-bay-wide section was added to accommodate the growing meeting.
Also used for meetings of the Pennsylvania General Assembly and Provincial Council. [23] West side of Front Street, between Race and Vine Streets, Philadelphia: Bank Meeting House [f] 1703 A large two-story, three-bay brick building, 50 ft (15 m) square, with separate entrances for men and women. [24]: 28
This stone meeting house is still the meeting for worship for the Newtown Square Friends Meeting House, over 300 years later. The Meeting House is the oldest place of worship in Newtown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. The Meeting House was greatly expanded and "modernized" in 1791. The architectural ghost of the original ...
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The Flushing meeting house was the second meeting house to be built on Long Island, the first one being built in Oyster Bay in 1672, which no longer stands. [6] The Quakers, coming from the Netherlands, settled in the area in 1657 and meetings were held in people's homes until the Meeting House was built. [5]
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