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Friends meeting houses are places of worship for the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. A "meeting" is the equivalent of a church congregation, and a "meeting house" is the equivalent of a church building. Several Friends meetings were founded in Pennsylvania in the early 1680s. [a] The Merion Friends Meeting House is the only surviving ...
The Buckingham Friends Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house at 5684 Lower York Road ( U.S. Route 202) in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Built in 1768 in a "doubled" style, it is nationally significant as a model for many subsequent Friends Meeting Houses. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2003.
December 17, 1954 [3] 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 ...
Springfield Friends Meeting House. Coordinates: 39.941359°N 75.348524°W. Springfield Friends Meetinghouse built in 1850. Springfield Friends Meetinghouse in Henry Graham Ashmead's "History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania," 1862. The Springfield Friends Meetinghouse is a Quaker meeting house that is located at 1001 Old Sproul Road in ...
Wrightstown Friends Meeting House. October 2012. / 40.26528°N 74.98333°W / 40.26528; -74.98333. The Wrightstown Friends Meeting Complex is an historic, American Quaker meeting house that is located on PA 413 in Wrightstown, Pennsylvania . It was added to the National Register in 1975.
Old Haverford Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house at 235 East Eagle Road in Havertown, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The burial ground attached to Old Haverford Friends Meetinghouse was laid out in 1684. [1] In 1688, the log meetinghouse was built. Later, a stone meetinghouse was subsequently completed in 1700.
Uwchlan Meetinghouse is an historic Quaker meeting house located on North Village Avenue (Pennsylvania Route 113) at Lionville in Uwchlan Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1756, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, rubble fieldstone structure with a gable roof. Monthly as well as weekly meetings for business matters were first held ...
November 4, 1993. The Race Street Meetinghouse is an historic and still active Quaker meetinghouse at 1515 Cherry Street in the Center City area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [2] The meetinghouse served as the site of the Yearly Meeting of the Hicksite sect of the Religious Society of Friends, known as the Quakers, from 1857 to 1955.