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Colonial meeting house in Alna, Maine Interior of colonial meeting house in Alna, Maine Box pews in the colonial meeting house in Millville, Massachusetts. A colonial meeting house was a meeting house used by communities in colonial New England. Built using tax money, the colonial meeting house was the focal point of the community where the ...
A "meeting" is the equivalent of a church congregation, and a "meeting house" is the equivalent of a church building. Several Friends meetings were founded in Pennsylvania in the early 1680s. [a] The Merion Friends Meeting House is the only surviving meeting house constructed before 1700. [3]
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 .
This is considered the oldest surviving Friends meeting house in America. [11] Some Friends meeting houses were adapted from existing structures, but most were purpose-built. The 1675 Brigflatts Meeting House in Cumbria, England is an example of the latter. The hallmark of a meeting house is extreme simplicity and the absence of any liturgical ...
Merion Friends Meeting House: Merion Station: c. 1715: Religious One of the oldest Quaker meeting houses in America Newtown Square Friends Meeting House: Newtown Township, Delaware County: 1711 Religious Early Welsh Quaker settlers in one of William Penn's two planned "new towns" built this meeting house in 1711. Thomas Story House
The Uplands Meeting had been organized by Robert Wade, who arrived in the area in 1675, from earlier Quaker settlements in New Jersey. Chichester attained the status of Monthly Meeting in March, 1684. [2] This group of Friends met in member's homes until about 1688 when a 24-foot (7.3 m) square meetinghouse was built on two acres.
The Kennett Monthly Meeting house known as Old Kennett was first constructed in 1710 on land owned by Ezekiel Harlan, deeded from William Penn.Kennett and Marlboro Townships were being colonized by farming Quaker families who joined with members of New Castle Meeting, Hockessin Meeting and Centre Meeting (near Centerville Delaware) every four to six weeks for business meetings at Newark (New ...
The Town House of the small Vermont town of Marlboro was built in 1822 to be used for Town Meetings, which had previously been held in private homes. It is still in use today. Nearby is an example of a religious building called a "meeting house", the Marlboro Meeting House Congregational Church.