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The Quaker Meeting-house on Hester and Elizabeth Streets, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, was a meetinghouse for the Religious Society of Friends, built in 1818. Recorded in 1876 by the New York Express that it "has for a long time been the office of the New York Gas Light Company ", now Consolidated Edison.
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.
Seaville Friends Meeting House, Seaville, Cape May County (This 1716–1727 meeting house is the smallest frame Quaker meeting house in the United States. [9]: 279 ) Stony Brook Meeting House and Cemetery, Princeton; Trenton Friends Meeting House, Trenton; Upper Greenwich Friends Meetinghouse, Mickleton, Gloucester County
The Free Quaker Meetinghouse is a historic Free Quaker meeting house at the southeast corner of 5th and Arch Streets in the Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1783, and is a plain 2 1 ⁄ 2-story brick building with a gable roof. The second floor was added in 1788.
The "Free Quakers" were supporters of the American Revolutionary War, separated from the Society, and built their own meeting house in Philadelphia, at 5th & Arch Streets (1783). In 1827, the Great Separation divided Pennsylvania Quakers into two branches, Orthodox and Hicksite. Many individual meetings also separated, but one branch generally ...
Quaker Meeting may refer to: Monthly meeting , the basic unit of administration in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) Meeting for worship , a Quaker religious practice comparable to a church service
The Wrightstown Friends Meeting Complex is an historic, American Quaker meeting house that is located on PA 413 in Wrightstown, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register in 1975. History and notable features
The Long Plain Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house at 1341 N. Main Street in Acushnet, Massachusetts. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a gable roof and two chimneys. A single-story hip-roof vestibule projects from the front, with a pair of entrances flanking a window.