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Friends' Central School, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, grades preK–12, independent Quaker school; Friends Meeting School [33] Ijamsville, Frederick County, Maryland, grades K–12, independent Quaker school; Friends School of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, grades preK–12. Pre-preschool options are available as well, known as Baby Friends and ...
Pennsylvania See also Friends meeting houses in Pennsylvania. Abington Friends Meeting House, Jenkintown, Montgomery County [9]: 369–71 Arch Street Friends Meeting House, Philadelphia; Birmingham Friends Meetinghouse, Birmingham Township, Chester County; Buckingham Friends Meeting House, Buckingham Township, Bucks County, NRHP-listed
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 ] Thirty-two surviving Pennsylvania meeting houses were constructed before 1800, and are listed individually on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) or as ...
The Horsham Friends Meeting is an historic American Quaker meeting house which is located in Horsham, Pennsylvania. Home to the Horsham Monthly Meeting, it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since June 21, 1991. In addition to serving as a place of worship, is also a place of education.
Westtown is a Quaker school affiliated with the Friends General Conference branch of the Religious Society of Friends. The school requires all students to attend Meeting for Worship together with adults in the community who voluntarily attend. Westtown uses the traditional Quaker practice of coming to unity in making some high-level decisions.
The Wrightstown Friends Meeting Complex is an historic, American Quaker meeting house that is located on PA 413 in Wrightstown, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register in 1975. History and notable features
Friends' Central School was founded in 1845 in Philadelphia at 4th Street and Cherry Street, serving as an upper school for the Quaker primary schools with grades 7 through 12. In 1857, the school moved to 15th and Race Street, remaining at this location until 1925, when it moved to its current campus on City Avenue, formerly the Wistar Morris ...
Students included non-Friends, as well as members of the orthodox Chester Monthly Meeting and the Hicksite Providence Friends Meeting in Media. At the beginning of the century the Quaker religious meeting moved to 125 West 3rd Street and expanded. The small brick school building was built in 1896 with additions added in 1908 and 1918.