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Friends meeting house. A Friends meeting house is a meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), where meeting for worship is usually held. Typically, Friends meeting houses are simple and resemble local residential buildings. Steeples, spires, and ornamentation are usually avoided. [citation needed] When Quakers speak of a ...
Friends meeting houses are places of worship for the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. 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 ...
December 17, 1954 [3] The Arch Street Meeting House, at 320 Arch Street at the corner of 4th Street in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Built to reflect Friends' testimonies of simplicity and equality, this building is little changed after more than two ...
Briggflatts Meeting House (1675), Cumbria, second oldest in England. Brighton Friends Meeting House (1805), East Sussex. Farfield Friends Meeting House (1689), West Yorkshire, a former Quaker meeting house. Finchley Meeting House (1967), London [2] Friends Meeting House, Come-to-Good (1710), Cornwall.
Third Haven Meeting House. Coordinates: 38°45′59″N 76°4′37″W. Third Haven Meeting House in 2020. The Third Haven Meeting House is generally considered the oldest-surviving Friends meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends in America, and it is a cornerstone of Quaker history in Talbot County, Maryland.
The Buckingham Friends Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house at 5684 Lower York Road (U.S. Route 202) in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Built in 1768 in a "doubled" style, it is nationally significant as a model for many subsequent Friends Meeting Houses. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2003. [3][4]
Colonial Revival. NRHP reference No. 90001294 [1] Added to NRHP. September 06, 1990. Meeting House of the Friends Meeting of Washington (Friends Meeting House) is a historic Quaker meeting house at 2111 Decatur Place in NW Washington, DC. The Colonial Revival building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
November 4, 1993. 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.