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. [lower-alpha 1] The Merion Friends Meeting House is the only surviving meeting house constructed before 1700. [3] Thirty-two surviving Pennsylvania meeting houses were constructed before 1800, and are listed individually on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) or as contributing properties in historic districts. [4] More than one hundred meeting houses constructed before 1900 were documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey, and published in Silent Witness: Quaker Meeting Houses in the Delaware Valley, 1695 to the Present (2002). [5] Those that were involved in the Underground Railroad have been identified by the Federal NETWORK TO FREEDOM program (NTF).
One of the key tenets of the Religious Society of Friends is pacifism, adherence to the Peace Testimony. The "Free Quakers" were supporters of the American Revolutionary War, separated from the Society, and built their own meeting house in Philadelphia, at 5th & Arch Streets (1783).
In 1827, the Great Separation divided Pennsylvania Quakers into two branches, Orthodox and Hicksite. Many individual meetings also separated, but one branch generally kept possession of the meeting house. The two branches reunited in the 1950s.
Name | Photo | Founded | Constructed | Branch | Notes | Location | Reference |
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Abington Friends Meeting House | 1683 | 1786 | Hicksite | 520 Meeting House Rd., Jenkintown 40°05′38″N75°07′06″W / 40.0939°N 75.1182°W | FMHS | ||
Arch Street Friends Meeting House | 1681 | 1804, 1811 | Orthodox | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting | 304 Arch St., Philadelphia 39°57′07″N75°08′46″W / 39.9519°N 75.1462°W | NHL | |
Bart Friends Meeting | 1820 | 1825 | Hicksite | Quaker Church Rd., Christiana 39°55′58″N76°02′50″W / 39.9328°N 76.0473°W | |||
Birmingham Friends Meetinghouse | More images | 1726 | 1763 | Hicksite | Birmingham Rd. near Rt. 926, West Chester 39°54′21″N75°35′39″W / 39.9057°N 75.5943°W | NRHP | |
Birmingham Orthodox Friends Meeting House | About 100 yd (91 m) from Hicksite meeting house. Now a private home. | NRHP | |||||
Bradford Friends Meetinghouse | 1716, 1726 | 1765 | Orthodox | 1364 West Strasburg Road, Marshallton 39°56′59″N75°40′48″W / 39.9496°N 75.6800°W | NRHP | ||
Bristol Friends Meeting House | 1707, 1711 | 1713-19 | Hicksite | Market & Woods St., Bristol 40°05′47″N74°51′26″W / 40.0963°N 74.8572°W | FMHS NRHP HD [6] | ||
Buckingham Friends Meeting House | More images | 1701, 1705 | 1768 | Hicksite | 5684 York Rd. (Rt 202), Lahaska 40°20′41″N75°02′19″W / 40.3447°N 75.0387°W | NHL [7] | |
Byberry Friends Meeting House | 1683, 1701 | 1808 | Hicksite | 3001 Byberry Rd., Philadelphia 40°06′09″N74°58′51″W / 40.1025°N 74.9809°W | |||
Caln Meeting House | 1716 | 1782 | Shared | In 1907 the Orthodox Meeting moved to Coatesville | Rt. 340, Thorndale 40°00′26″N75°45′53″W / 40.0073°N 75.7646°W | FMHS | |
Catawissa Friends Meetinghouse | 1775, 1793 | 1794 | South St., Catawissa 40°57′04″N76°27′42″W / 40.9510°N 76.4617°W | FMHS NRHP | |||
Chester Friends Meetinghouse | 1675, 1698 | 1829, 1954 | 24th at Chestnut St. Chester 39°52′10″N75°21′50″W / 39.8694°N 75.3639°W | NRHP | |||
Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting | 1924 | 1931, 2012-2013 | Shared | The 2013 building features a "Skyspace," a sky-lighted room for quiet contemplation. | 100 E. Mermaid Ln, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia 40°04′07″N75°11′46″W / 40.0685°N 75.196°W | HABS | |
Chichester Friends Meetinghouse | 1682, 1701 | 1769 | Hicksite | Meeting House Rd., Boothwyn 39°50′11″N75°25′53″W / 39.8365°N 75.4313°W | NRHP | ||
Concord Friends Meetinghouse | 1684 | 1728. 1788 | Hicksite | Old Concord Rd, Concordville 39°53′05″N75°31′09″W / 39.8848°N 75.5192°W | NRHP, FMHS | ||
Darby Friends Meeting | 1682 | 1805 | Hicksite | 1015 Main St., Darby 39°55′16″N75°15′46″W / 39.9211°N 75.2629°W | NRHP NTF | ||
Doe Run | 1808, 1811 | 1883 | 81 Greenlaw Rd, Cochraneville 39°53′21″N75°52′17″W / 39.8892°N 75.8715°W | ||||
Downingtown Friends Meeting House | 1784, 1811 | 1806 | Uwchlan Monthly Meeting moved here in 1900 | 800 E. Lancaster Ave, Downingtown 40°00′51″N75°41′20″W / 40.0141°N 75.6889°W | FMHS | ||
Exeter Friends Meeting House | 1715, 1725 | 1759 | Orthodox | Meeting House Rd., Stonersville 40°18′48″N75°47′04″W / 40.3132°N 75.7845°W | FMHS | ||
Fair Hill Friends Meeting House | 1702, 1880 | 1883 | Cambria St. at Germantown Ave., Philadelphia 39°59′46″N75°08′48″W / 39.9962°N 75.1467°W | ||||
Fallowfield Friends Meeting House | 1792, 1796 | 1801 (1811?) | Hicksite | Rt. 82 at Buck Run Rd., Ercildoun 39°56′46″N75°50′18″W / 39.9461°N 75.8384°W | FMHS | ||
2nd Falls Friends Meeting House | 1683 | 1728 | NA | Replaced by the 1789 third meeting house Housed a Friends School Now divided into apartments | Tyburn Rd. at New Falls Rd., Fallsington 40°11′06″N74°49′12″W / 40.1850°N 74.8200°W | FMHS | |
3rd Falls Friends Meeting House (now William Penn Center) | 1789 | Orthodox | Houses the William Penn Center | 9300 New Falls Rd., Fallsington 40°11′06″N74°49′11″W / 40.1849°N 74.8196°W | FMHS | ||
4th Falls Friends Meeting House (located just north of the William Penn Center) | 1841 | Hicksite | Interior: | 9300 New Falls Rd., Fallsington | |||
Frankford Friends Meeting House | 1684 | 1775-76 | Hicksite | Orthodox counterpart on Orthodox St. | Unity and Waln Sts., Philadelphia 40°00′40″N75°05′03″W / 40.0111°N 75.0843°W | FMHS | |
Free Quaker Meetinghouse | 1780 | 1783-84 | Free Quaker | Closed 1836 Home of the Apprentices' Library, 1841-1897 [8] In an 1884 engraving: | 5th and Arch, Philadelphia 39°57′09″N75°08′55″W / 39.9524°N 75.1487°W | NRHP | |
Germantown Friends Meeting House | 1690 | 1868-69 | Samuel Sloan & Addison Hutton, architects | 47 W. Coulter, Philadelphia 40°01′57″N75°10′19″W / 40.0324°N 75.1720°W | |||
Goshen Friends Meeting House | 1709 | 1855 | 814 Chester Rd, Goshenville 39°59′36″N75°32′37″W / 39.9933°N 75.5435°W | ||||
Gwynedd Friends Meeting House | 1689, 1698 | 1823 | Hicksite | Spring House & Pennllyn Turnpike, Lower Gwyynedd 40°12′11″N75°15′21″W / 40.2031°N 75.2557°W | |||
Old Haverford Friends Meetinghouse | 1682, 1684 | 1701 | Hicksite | 235 E. Eagle Road, Havertown 39°59′27″N75°18′17″W / 39.9907°N 75.3047°W | FMHS [4] | ||
Homeville Friends Meeting House | 1839 | 1839 | Newark Rd. Rt 896, Homeville 39°51′39″N75°59′14″W / 39.8608°N 75.9872°W | ||||
Horsham Friends Meeting | 1714, 1717 | 1803 | Hicksite | Rte. 611 & Horsham Rd., Horsham Township 40°11′01″N75°07′54″W / 40.1836°N 75.1316°W | FMHS | ||
Horsham Orthodox Friends Meeting House | 1890 | 1890 | Orthodox | Extant? | Saw Mill Lane & Dreshertown Rd., Horsham Township 40°10′39″N75°08′23″W / 40.1775°N 75.1397°W | ||
Old Kennett Meetinghouse | 1707, 1711 | 1731 c. | Hicksite | US Route 1, Kennett Square 39°52′16″N75°38′53″W / 39.8711°N 75.6481°W | FMHS | ||
Lampeter Friends Meeting House | 1728, 1732 | 1889 | Rt. 340, Bird-in-Hand 40°02′20″N76°11′06″W / 40.0390°N 76.1850°W | ||||
Little Elk Friends Meeting House | 1826 | Media Rd, Hickory Hill 39°44′55″N75°55′49″W / 39.7485°N 75.9304°W | |||||
London Grove Friends Meeting House | 1724, 1775 | 1818 | Rt. 926 at Newark Rd, West Marlborough Township 39°52′11″N75°46′25″W / 39.8696°N 75.7735°W | ||||
Longwood Progressive Friends Meeting House | 1854 | 1854 | Rt. 1 at Longwood Gardens 39°52′07″N75°40′17″W / 39.8687°N 75.6713°W | ||||
Maidencreek Friends Meeting House | 1732, 1735 | 1759 | Hicksite | West Shore Dr., Kindts Corner (building moved 1929) 40°27′44″N75°55′51″W / 40.4622°N 75.9308°W | FMHS | ||
Makefield Friends Meeting House | 1750, 1790 | 1760, 1764 | Hicksite | 877 Dolington Rd, Lower Makefield 40°15′57″N74°53′12″W / 40.2658°N 74.8868°W | NRHP, FMHS | ||
Marlboro Friends Meeting House | 1799, 1802 | 1801 | Part of Marlborough Village Historic District | 901 Marlborough Springs Rd., Marlborough Village 39°53′44″N75°42′17″W / 39.8956°N 75.7046°W | FMHS | ||
Media Monthly Meeting House | 1878 | 1875 | Orthodox | known as Chester Monthly Meeting until 1950? | Third St., Media 39°55′17″N75°23′29″W / 39.9213°N 75.3913°W | ||
Merion Friends Meeting House | More images | 1683 | 1695-1714 | Hicksite | In an 1837 engraving: | 615 Montgomery Ave., Merion Station 40°00′35″N75°15′16″W / 40.0097°N 75.2544°W | NHL [9] |
Middletown Friends Meeting House | 1680, 1683 | 1793 | Hicksite | 453 W. Maple Ave., Langhorne 40°10′31″N74°55′44″W / 40.1752°N 74.9288°W | FMHS | ||
Middletown Friends Meetinghouse | 1686, 1701 | 1702, 1770s, 1888 | 435 Middletown Rd, Lima 39°55′28″N75°26′34″W / 39.9245°N 75.4429°W | ||||
Millville Friends Meeting House | 1795 | 1846 | Hicksite | Main at Maple St., Millville 41°07′23″N76°31′34″W / 41.1231°N 76.5260°W | HABS | ||
New Garden Friends Meeting House | 1712, 1715 | 1743 | Hicksite | Newark Rd., Toughkenamon 39°48′54″N75°45′09″W / 39.8150°N 75.7526°W | FMHS | ||
Newtown Friends Meeting House | 1815, 1817 | 1817, 1868 | Hicksite | 219 Court St. Newtown 40°13′33″N74°56′09″W / 40.2257°N 74.9357°W | |||
Newtown Square Friends Meeting House | 1696, 1706 | 1791 | Hicksite | 120 Newtown Rd. (Rt 252), Newtown Square 39°59′30″N75°24′18″W / 39.9918°N 75.4050°W | FMHS | ||
Norristown Friends Meeting House | 1890 | Swede & Pine Sts., Norristown | |||||
Oxford Friends Meeting House | 1876 | 1879 | S. 3rd St., Oxford 39°46′48″N75°58′51″W / 39.7801°N 75.9808°W | ||||
Parkersville Friends Meetinghouse | 1830 | 1830 | Hicksite | Parkersville Rd. s of Rt 926 Parkersville 39°53′10″N75°38′43″W / 39.8861°N 75.6452°W | NRHP | ||
Plumsted Friends Meeting House | 1730 | 1752, 1876 | 4914 Point Pleasant Pike, Danboro 40°22′02″N75°06′52″W / 40.3671°N 75.1145°W | FMHS | |||
Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse | More images | 1703, 1710 | 1708, 1780 | Hicksite | Germantown Pike, Plymouth Meeting 40°06′09″N75°16′45″W / 40.1025°N 75.2792°W | NRHP [10] | |
Providence Friends Meeting House | 1686 | 1700, 1727, 1753 | Hicksite | Providence Rd., Media 39°55′06″N75°22′52″W / 39.9183°N 75.3810°W | HABS | ||
Providence Quaker Cemetery and Chapel | 1789 | 1793 | closed 1870 | Jct. of PA 4038 and PA 4036 W, Perryopolis 40°04′22″N79°46′56″W / 40.072778°N 79.782222°W , | NRHP | ||
Race Street Friends Meeting House | 1855-57 | Interior: | 1515 Cherry St., Philadelphia 39°57′21″N75°09′54″W / 39.9559°N 75.1651°W | NRHP | |||
Radnor Friends Meetinghouse | More images | 1684, 1698 | 1717-18 | Hicksite | Sproul Rd. (Rt 320), Ithan 40°01′48″N75°21′51″W / 40.0300°N 75.3643°W | ||
Reading Friends Meeting House | 1750, 1756 | 1868 | Wilson Eyre | 108 N. 6th St., Reading 40°20′15″N75°55′35″W / 40.3375°N 75.9263°W | |||
Richlands Friends Meeting House | 1710, 1723 | 1862 | Main St and Mill Rd, Quakertown 40°26′12″N75°21′08″W / 40.4367°N 75.3522°W | ||||
Roaring Creek Friends Meeting | 1786, 1796 | 1795-96 | Hicksite | Interior: | Quaker Meeting Rd., Numidia 40°53′53″N76°23′55″W / 40.8981°N 76.3986°W | FMHS | |
Sadsbury Friends Meeting House | 1723, 1725 | 1747 | Hicksite | Simmontown Rd, Gap 39°58′15″N75°59′27″W / 39.9709°N 75.9908°W | FMHS | ||
Schuylkill Friends Meeting House | 1812 | 1807, 1816 | Hicksite | Charlestown Friends until 1826 | 37 N. Whitehorse Rd., Phoenixville 40°07′15″N75°30′07″W / 40.1209°N 75.5019°W | ||
Solebury Friends Meeting House | 1806, 1811 | 1806 | 2680 Sugan Rd., New Hope 40°22′22″N74°59′15″W / 40.3728°N 74.9874°W | ||||
Springfield Friends Meetinghouse | 1686 | 1703, 1783, 1850 | |||||
Swarthmore Friends Meeting House | 1863, 1893 | 1881 | Hicksite | 12 Whittier Place, Swarthmore 39°54′26″N75°21′12″W / 39.9073°N 75.3533°W | |||
Twelfth Street Meeting House (now George School Meeting House) | Circa-1892 photograph Disassembled, July 1972 | 1813-1814 relocated 1972 | Orthodox | Built by carpenter John D. Smith using elements of the Greater Meeting House, 1813-1814. Disassembled and relocated, Summer 1972. Rebuilt on campus of the George School, 1973-1974. Charles Hough, restoration architect [11] Re-dedicated, September 24, 1974 | Original: 20 South 12th Street, Philadelphia 39°57′04″N75°09′37″W / 39.951167°N 75.160278°W Current: George School, Newtown, Bucks County 40°12′41″N74°56′02″W / 40.211278°N 74.93375°W | HABS [12] | |
Unionville Friends Meeting House | 1845 | 1845 | Now Grange Hall | Rt. 82, Unionville 39°53′44″N75°43′51″W / 39.8956°N 75.7307°W | FMHS | ||
Upper Dublin Friends Meeting House | 1814 | 1814 | Hicksite | Ft. Washington & Limekiln Rd. Upper Dublin 40°09′44″N75°11′16″W / 40.1622°N 75.1878°W | |||
Upper Providence Friends Meeting House | 1716, 1733 | 1828 | Hicksite | 8207 Black Rock Road, Oaks 40°08′56″N75°28′33″W / 40.1490°N 75.4758°W | HABS | ||
Uwchlan Meetinghouse | 1712, 1714 | 1763 c. | Orthodox | Village Ave. North, Lionville 40°03′16″N75°39′36″W / 40.0545°N 75.6599°W | FMHS | ||
Valley Friends Meeting House | 1698, 1810 | 1871 | 1121 Old Eagle School Rd., Wayne 40°04′57″N75°24′54″W / 40.0826°N 75.4151°W | ||||
Warrington Friends Meeting House | 1769 | Carlisle Rd, Wellsville 40°03′12″N76°55′47″W / 40.0532°N 76.9298°W | |||||
West Chester Meeting House | 1810, 1813 | 1810, 1868 | Hicksite | 425 N. High, West Chester 39°57′51″N75°36′28″W / 39.9642°N 75.6078°W | |||
West Philadelphia Orthodox Friends Meeting House | 1878 | 1878 | Orthodox | Powelton & 42nd St., Philadelphia 39°57′33″N75°12′24″W / 39.9592°N 75.2066°W | |||
Willistown Friends Meeting House | 1753, 1794 | 1798 | Hicksite | Part of Okehocking Historic District | 7069 Goshen Rd., Whitehorse 39°59′19″N75°28′51″W / 39.9886°N 75.4809°W | FMHS | |
Wrightstown Friends Meeting Complex | 1686 | 1787 | Hicksite | Rt. 413, 4 miles north of Newtown 40°15′57″N74°58′54″W / 40.2657°N 74.9818°W | NRHP, FMHS | ||
York Friends Meeting House | 1754, 1767 | 1766, 1783 | Hicksite | Philadelphia St., York 39°57′47″N76°43′54″W / 39.9630°N 76.7317°W | FMHS | ||
Name | Image | Founded | Constructed | Demolished | Notes | Location | Reference |
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Centre Square Meeting House | Shown at center of map | 1684 | 1685-1687 [13] [lower-alpha 2] | Summer 1702 [15] | Built on what is now the site of Philadelphia City Hall Salvaged materials from it were used to build the Bank Meeting House | Broad and High (Market) Streets, Philadelphia | |
Chester Friends Meeting House | 1675 | 1687–1693 | c.1735 | William Penn attended meeting in Chester, probably in a private home, soon after his October 1682 arrival. | 3rd and Market in Chester PA | ||
Evening Meeting House [lower-alpha 3] replaced on the same site by Bank Meeting House | 1682 | 1683-1685 [lower-alpha 4] | 1698 | A temporary, wood-frame building, built on Bank Hill, along the Delaware River. [14] [lower-alpha 5] Also used for meetings of the Pennsylvania General Assembly and Provincial Council. [17] | W. side of Front Street, btw. Race & Vine Streets, Philadelphia | ||
Bank Meeting House [lower-alpha 6] | 1703 | A large two-story, three-bay brick building, 50 ft (15 m) square, with separate entrances for men and women. [18] : 28 Built using salvaged materials from the demolished Centre Square Meeting House. [18] : 27 Sold 1791. [15] | |||||
Fourth Street Meeting House and School | 1763-1764 [19] | 1859 [19] | A two-story brick building, "76 feet front on Fourth street, 42 feet deep." [19] Built beside the Friends Public School (for boys). A school for girls occupied the meeting house's second floor. [19] | E. side of Fourth Street, btw. Chestnut & Sansom Streets, Philadelphia | PAB [20] | ||
Great Meeting House (High Street Meeting House) replaced on the same site by Greater Meeting House | Great Meeting House | 1695 | 1755 | Interior lighted by a roof lantern. [lower-alpha 7] | SW. corner 2nd & Market Streets, Philadelphia | PAB [22] | |
Greater Meeting House | Greater Meeting House | 1755 | 1812-1813 | A square, two-and-a-half-story brick building, 57 ft (17 m) per side, built by carpenter Abraham Carlisle and his apprentice Isaac Coates. [lower-alpha 8] Dismantled by carpenter John D. Smith, and used to build Twelfth Street Meeting House, 1813-1814. | |||
Green Street Meeting House Home of the North Monthly Meeting until c.1828 | 1815-1816 [15] | c.1970 | "The dimensions of the building were forty-seven by seventy-three feet." [23] Home of the Monthly Meeting for the Northern District until the 1827-28 Hicksite/Orthodox schism. [24] Discontinued as a meeting, 1914. Reopened as Friends Neighborhood House, a settlement house serving immigrant communities. [24] | SE. corner 4th & Green Streets, Philadelphia | |||
Key's Alley Meeting House Home of the North Monthly Meeting, 1790-1816 | 1790 | Dimensions: "68 by 50 feet, … an additional apartment of brick 40 by 45 feet on the north side of the building, for a Monthly Meeting room." [15] Home of the North Meeting until 1816, when it moved to Green Street Meeting House. [15] The former meeting house became a Philadelphia public school. [15] | N. side of New Street, btw. Front & 2nd Streets, Philadelphia | ||||
North Meeting House [24] | 1838 | c.1968 | Built for Orthodox Friends who separated from the Hicksite Green Street Meeting House. "The dimensions of the building were 118 by 65 feet, with a height of 30 feet." [24] Discontinued as a meeting, 1914. Sold 1918; became a community center and playground. [24] | SW. corner 6th & Noble Streets, Philadelphia | |||
Pine Street Meeting House (Hill Meeting House) | 1747 | 1752-1753 [19] | Land donated by Samuel Powel. [25] "The meeting agrees that a brick house of 60 feet front, and 43 feet deep shall be built on said lot." [19] A two-story, three-bay brick building, with separate entrances for men and women. [18] : 28 Robert Smith, builder | S. side of Pine Street, btw. Front & 2nd Streets, Philadelphia | PAB [26] | ||
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