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The Arch Street Meeting House is a landmark building within the over 100 monthly meetings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. For most of the 19th and 20th centuries, Friends would come from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s four-state geographic area to conduct annual business at its midsummer “sessions”.
build Twelfth Street Meeting House, 1813–1814. 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 ...
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. The second floor was added in 1788.
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]
It traces its origins to 1682 when a monthly meeting of Friends in Philadelphia was established at the now-demolished Bank Street Meeting House. [3] By 1707, it had published its own "book of discipline", the standards and practices by which Friends worship, conduct business, and relate to one another and to the world.
Arch Street Friends Meeting House. June 23, 2011 Center City 302–338 Arch Street ... Edwin Forrest House, first home of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, ...
Arch Street runs from the Delaware River one way westbound through the Old City section of Philadelphia, where landmarks include the Arch Street Friends Meeting House, the Betsy Ross House, Girard Fountain Park, the U.S. Mint, and Christ Church Burial Ground.
Greater Friends Meeting House SW corner 2nd and Market Streets Built 1755. Dismantled 1812, used to build Twelfth Street Meeting House. Orange Street Friends Meeting House 7th Street and Washington Square South Demolished 1911 Twelfth Street Meeting House: 20 South 12th Street Built 1812-14, using materials from the Greater Meeting House ...