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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting holds annual sessions [30] for business to which all Friends in the Philadelphia area are invited. These meetings, generally multi-day and residential, take place during the summer months at locations (usually college or universities with dormitories) within the four-state area.
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.
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 ...
Home of the North Meeting until 1816, when it moved to Green Street Meeting House. [21] The former meeting house became a Philadelphia public school. [21] North side of New Street, between Front and 2nd Streets, Philadelphia: North Meeting House [30] 1838 c.1968 Built for Orthodox Friends who separated from the Hicksite Green Street Meeting House.
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]
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.
Conservative Friends are members of the Wilburite branch of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). In the United States, Conservative Friends belong to three Yearly Meetings: the Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative), the North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative), and the Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative).
The new Quaker meeting house is the first to be built in Philadelphia in eighty years. [2] The Meeting House is an active center for worship and the activities of the Monthly Meeting. [3] Since 1955, it has been a part of the Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting. [4] The meeting has participated in the Yearly Meetings of Friends.