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The yearly meeting’s more than 100 monthly meetings in the four-state area (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) associate with one another in regional groups meeting for worship and business every three months. These groupings are known as quarterly meetings. [5] The quarters within the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting are:
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 ...
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.
The Conservative Ohio Yearly Meeting should not be confused with the Gurneyite Ohio Yearly Meeting associated with the Evangelical Friends Church International which is now known as the Evangelical Friends Church – Eastern Region. The meetinghouse of the Stillwater Monthly Meeting, part of the Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends
Green Street Meeting House Home of the North Monthly Meeting until c. 1828: 1815-1816 [21] c.1970 "The dimensions of the building were forty-seven by seventy-three feet." [29] Home of the Monthly Meeting for the Northern District until the 1827-28 Hicksite/Orthodox schism. [30] Discontinued as a meeting, 1914. Reopened as Friends Neighborhood ...
The first chapter, Advices and Queries, originated from queries asked by London Yearly Meeting (the predecessor to Britain Yearly Meeting) to the quarterly meetings about the state of their meetings, and advices originated from the original Christian and brotherly advices given forth from time to time by the Yearly Meetings in London ...