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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.
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
While meetinghouse design evolved over time to a standardization of the double-cell structure without explicit guidelines for building, the meeting house's reflective architecture revealed a deeper meaning. The meeting house design manifested and enhanced Quaker Testimonies and the cultivation of the Inner Light that was essential to Friends.
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The Religious Society of Free Quakers, originally called "The Religious Society of Friends, by some styled the Free Quakers," was established on February 20, 1781 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. More commonly known as Free Quakers , the Society was founded by members of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers , who had been expelled for ...
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The Airton Quaker Meeting House is a historic religious building in Airton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. As a vernacular building , the origin of the meeting house is uncertain. The National Churches Trust argues that it was purpose-built in the early 1600s as a meeting house for the Seekers , an early group of religious dissenters.
The Flushing Friends Quaker Meeting House was built in 1694 as a small frame structure on land acquired in 1692 by John Bowne and John Rodman in Flushing, New York. The first recorded meeting held there was on November 24, 1694. This original structure is now the easterly third of the current structure, which was expanded 1716-1719. [4]