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The yearly meeting’s more than 100 monthly meetings in the four-state area (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) associate with one another in regional groups meeting for worship and business every three months. These groupings are known as quarterly meetings. [5] The quarters within the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting are:
The Race Street Meetinghouse is an historic and still active Quaker meetinghouse at 1515 Cherry Street in the Center City area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [2] The meetinghouse served as the site of the Yearly Meeting of the Hicksite sect of the Religious Society of Friends, known as the Quakers, from 1857 to 1955.
A formal program will take place in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art beginning at 2 p.m. and video screens will be placed along the parade route, according to city officials. For ...
United States historic place Arch Street Meeting House U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. National Historic Landmark Pennsylvania state historical marker Arch Street Friends Meeting House in 2024 Show map of Philadelphia Show map of Pennsylvania Show map of the United States Location 320 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Coordinates 39°57′7.2″N 75°8′45.9414″W ...
Green Street Meeting House Home of the North Monthly Meeting until c. 1828: 1815-1816 [21] c.1970 "The dimensions of the building were forty-seven by seventy-three feet." [29] Home of the Monthly Meeting for the Northern District until the 1827-28 Hicksite/Orthodox schism. [30] Discontinued as a meeting, 1914. Reopened as Friends Neighborhood ...
Friends General Conference (FGC) is an association of Quakers in the United States and Canada made up of 16 yearly meetings and 12 autonomous monthly meetings. [1] "Monthly meetings" are what Quakers call congregations; "yearly meetings" are organizations of monthly meetings within a geographic region. FGC was founded in 1900. [2]
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting: Faith and Practice [26] 1955 revised in 1972, 1997, 2002, 2017: Piedmont Friends Yearly Meeting formerly Piedmont Friends Fellowship: 2014: Faith and Practice: South Central Yearly Meeting: 1961: Faith and Practice: As of 2012, in process of formulating. [27] Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Association: 1979
Yearly Meeting is an organization composed of constituent meetings or churches of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, within a geographical area.The constituent meetings are called Monthly Meetings in most of the world; in England, local congregations are now called Area Meetings, in Australia Monthly Meetings are called Regional Meetings.