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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 meeting house constructed before 1700. [ 3 ]
The Birmingham Orthodox Friends Meeting, also known as the Birmingham Orthodox Meeting House, is an historic, American Quaker meetinghouse that is located in Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. [1]
Pages in category "Quaker meeting houses in Pennsylvania" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. ... Orthodox Meetinghouse; P. Parkersville ...
The first mention of an organized Friends meeting in Middletown Township was in 1686. [3] The location and construction of a meetinghouse was noted in 1699 and the Middletown Friends Meetinghouse was completed in 1702. [4] After a doctrinal split between Philadelphia Quakers, a number of "orthodox" members were forced out of the Meeting.
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 .
In 1968 Quaker architect Mather Lippincott designed a new education building to the north of the meeting house. [4] [6] The school is now used as The Peace Center at Birmingham. [7] From 1845 to 1923 a group of Quakers worshipped a few hundred yards south at the Orthodox Meetinghouse as a result of the Hicksite-Orthodox split. That meetinghouse ...
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.
A decline in membership led the Catawissa Monthly Meeting to merge in 1814 with the Roaring Creek and Berwick meetings and relocate to the Roaring Creek Meeting House. [2] Elias Hicks is believed to have spoken at the Roaring Creek meeting house. About 1827, after the "great separation" between Hicksite and Orthodox Quakers, the meeting house ...