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The Arch Street Meeting House, at 320 Arch Street at the corner of 4th Street in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Built to reflect Friends' testimonies of simplicity and equality, this building is little changed after more than two centuries of continuous use.
See also Friends meeting houses in Pennsylvania. Abington Friends Meeting House, Jenkintown, Montgomery County [9]: 369–71 Arch Street Friends Meeting House, Philadelphia; Birmingham Friends Meetinghouse, Birmingham Township, Chester County; Buckingham Friends Meeting House, Buckingham Township, Bucks County, NRHP-listed
104 S. 5th St. Independence Square: Independence Mall: Society founded 1743 by Benjamin Franklin. Building erected 1768. Early members included George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. 3: Arch Street Friends Meeting House
1616 Walnut Street Building. October 17, 1983 : 1616 ... Race Street Friends Meetinghouse. November 4, 1993 ... 1701–1709 Arch Street
Fourth Street Meeting House and School 1763-1764 [24] 1859 [24] A two-story brick building, "76 feet front on Fourth street, 42 feet deep." [24] Built beside the Friends Public School (for boys). A school for girls occupied the meeting house's second floor. [24] East side of Fourth Street, between Chestnut and Sansom Streets, Philadelphia: PAB [25]
The street was called Mulberry Street in William Penn's original city grid, but it was renamed Arch in 1854. [1] [unreliable source?] Other parts of the street were once called Holme and Tioga streets. [citation needed] In the 1950s and 1960s, Arch from 6th to 11th Streets was known as Radio Row, after its extensive number of electronic goods ...
47 West Coulter Street Race Street Friends Meetinghouse: 1515 Cherry Street West Philadelphia Friends Meeting House 3500 Lancaster Avenue Former buildings: Girard Avenue Meeting House 17th Street & Girard Avenue Built 1862 Discontinued 1934 Demolished Greater Friends Meeting House SW corner 2nd & Market Streets Built 1755. Dismantled 1812, used ...
In addition, Friends meet at Arch Street Friends Meeting House in continuing sessions [30] held in March and November for worship and business matters which cannot wait for annual sessions. The Presiding Clerk [31] officiates at the business sessions of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. This role, as described by the Yearly Meeting's website, gives ...