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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 ...
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 ...
The Merion Friends Meeting House was built in 1695, making it the second-oldest Friends meeting house in the United States; Old Norriton Presbyterian Church, founded in 1678 as a Dutch Reformed Church. The existing church building was built in 1698. Germantown Mennonite Meeting House, Germantown Mennonite Church in Germantown, PA (1683).
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.
File:Creek Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery Nov 11.jpg: 1777 built 1989 NRHP-listed [2] 2424 Salt Point Turnpike. Clinton Corners, New York: Colonial Fieldstone architecture. Quaker Creek Meeting Hall until 1927, Grange Hall until 1995 52
The original portion of the Frankford Preparative Friends Meeting House was built in 1775–76, making it the oldest Friends meeting house in Philadelphia. Although meeting houses were constructed in the region as early as the city's founding in the 1680s, most were replaced by the nineteenth century. Frankford Meeting House was originally ...
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.