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Quakers were at the center of the movement to abolish slavery in the early United States; it is no coincidence that Pennsylvania, center of American Quakerism, was the first state to abolish slavery. In the antebellum period, "Quaker meeting houses [in Philadelphia] ...had sheltered abolitionists for generations." [2]: 1
Camden, Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina Old Quaker Cemetery; Tennessee Friends Church (Maryville, Tennessee), Maryville, Blount County, NRHP-listed. Now St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. Texas Live Oak Friends Meeting House, Houston Heights, Houston. Located at 1318 West 26th Street, noted for its Skyspace by artist James Turrell
Quaker meeting houses (Friends meeting houses) — in the United States. Subcategories. This category has the following 21 subcategories, out of 21 total. ...
This branch makes up most Evangelical Quaker meetings from the Gurneyites. The EFCI is generally more conservative in their orientation than other Quaker meetings and has many similarities to other denominations of Evangelicalism. The original EFCI, known as the Association of Evangelical Friends, was formed in 1947.
The Flushing Friends Quaker Meeting House was built in 1694 as a small frame structure on land acquired in 1692 by John Bowne and John Rodman in Flushing, New York. The first recorded meeting held there was on November 24, 1694. This original structure is now the easterly third of the current structure, which was expanded 1716-1719. [4]
The Meeting was founded in 1954, when a group met at the home of Walter and Myra Whitson. [6] Members of the meeting met for many years in temporary spaces, including a Jewish community center, a Presbyterian manse, the Chocolate Bayou Theater, and a dance studio. They acquired two acres on which to build, but lacked resources to do so. [1]
Quakers settled in Dartmouth near Buzzards Bay in the seventeenth century. They were among the first colonial settlers in the area. In the 17th century Dartmouth was a large area that now encompasses Acushnet, Fairhaven, New Bedford, and Westport. [4] Quakers settled where the farmland was most fertile, without establishing a town center.
Thus the name Quaker began as a way of ridiculing Fox's admonition, but became widely accepted and used by some Quakers. [33] Quakers also described themselves using terms such as true Christianity, Saints, Children of the Light, and Friends of the Truth, reflecting terms used in the New Testament by members of the early Christian church.