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Pages in category "Quaker meeting houses in Ohio" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house near OH 150 in the village of Mount Pleasant, Ohio.It was built in 1814 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and was the first Quaker yearly meeting house west of the Alleghenies.
The Green Plain Monthly Meetinghouse is a historic former Quaker house of worship near South Charleston in Clark County, Ohio, United States.Built in 1843, [1] it was used by a part of a monthly meeting that was established in the area in 1822.
Ifield Friends Meeting House, one of the oldest purpose-built Quaker buildings in the world. Britain Yearly Meeting is the organization of Quakers in England, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands.
Colonial American Quakers built meeting houses that resembled residential homes to display the building's role in the community, avoiding "churchly" ornamentation. [12] While imprisoned for his beliefs in 1665, Quaker founder George Fox had a conversation wherein he explained "church" terminology and derided steeples:
Quakers were at the center of the movement to abolish slavery in the early United States; it is no coincidence that Pennsylvania, center of American Quakerism, was the first state to abolish slavery. In the antebellum period, "Quaker meeting houses [in Philadelphia] ...had sheltered abolitionists for generations."
Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting is a Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). [1] It is one of the seven bodies that represent the five different branches of the Society of Friends in Ohio. [2] It is affiliated with Friends General Conference and encompasses 20 monthly meetings in Southwest Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. [3]
[3]: 213 Until Miami Monthly Meeting was established in 1803, many Friends settling in southwestern Ohio were members at Concord. [3]: 218–219 Other members left around the same time to form a separate monthly meeting, Stillwater, in Warren Township. By the late nineteenth century, this settlement had grown to the point that it had become the ...