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Australia Yearly Meeting is the body of members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia. Quakers within Australia Yearly Meeting generally follow the unprogrammed style of worship. Australia Yearly Meeting comprises seven Regional Meetings: New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Canberra, Queensland and West ...
Friends in Australia and New Zealand follow the unprogrammed tradition, similar to that of the Britain Yearly Meeting. Considerable distances between the colonies and small numbers of Quakers meant that Australia Friends were dependent on London until the 20th century.
Friends Meeting House, adjacent to St Peter's Cathedral. The Adelaide meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends ("Quakers") is situated on Pennington Terrace, North Adelaide, South Australia, literally in the shadow of St Peter's Cathedral, on its west side.
Though his mother was an American Quaker and he attended some meetings, he was baptized and primarily raised an Anglican. [362] Maria Mitchell (1818–1889), an Australian, one of the first women in astronomy, who retained ties to the Quakers but became a Unitarian [363] Russ Nelson (b. 1958), American open-source software developer [364]
Pages in category "Australian Quakers" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. James Backhouse;
In 1670, Friends in England built the first worship-purposed meeting house. [7] The Hertford Meeting House is located in 48 Railway Street, Hertford, East Hertfordshire. [8] This is the oldest Quaker building in the world, still in use for worship meetings. [9] It was thrice visited by Quaker founder George Fox. [7]
The Friends' School, Hobart is an independent co-educational Quaker day and boarding school located in North Hobart, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Founded in 1887 by Quakers , the school currently caters for approximately 1330 students from pre-kindergarten to Year 12, including 47 boarders from Years 7 to 12. [ 2 ]
Quakers (or Friends) are members of a Christian religious movement that started in England as a form of Protestantism in the 17th century, and has spread throughout North America, Central America, Africa, and Australia. Some Quakers originally came to North America to spread their beliefs to the British colonists there, while others came to ...