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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 .
Meeting houses of this style usually have high windows so that worshippers sitting in meeting for worship cannot see outside. [citation needed] Meeting houses built in a more modern design will usually consist of: a large meeting room, smaller rooms for committees, children's classes, etc., a kitchen and toilets. [citation needed]
Greater Meeting House Greater Meeting House: 1755 1812-1813 A square, two-and-a-half-story brick building, 57 ft (17 m) per side, built by carpenter Abraham Carlisle and his apprentice Isaac Coates. [h] Dismantled by carpenter John D. Smith, and used to build Twelfth Street Meeting House, 1813–1814. Green Street Meeting House
The Meeting is a member of Bayou Quarterly Meeting and South Central Yearly Meeting [4] and is associated with Friends General Conference. [5] The meeting has approximately 75 [2]-100 attendees. [1] The Meeting was founded in 1954, when a group met at the home of Walter and Myra Whitson. [6]
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Town hall meetings can be traced back to the colonial era of the United States and to the 19th century in Australia. [6] The introduction of television and other new media technologies in the 20th century led to a fresh flourishing of town hall meetings in the United States as well as experimentation with different formats in the United States and other countries, both of which continue to the ...
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In 1743, Friends living near Shreve's Mount (later called Arney's Mount for an early settler, Arney Lippincott) asked the Burlington Monthly Meeting for permission to worship on the first day of each week, during the winter season, at the meeting house near Caleb Shreve's Mount. [1] [4] Some years later a meeting house was erected. The builder ...