Many historic colonial-era meeting houses in Pennsylvania were built in colonial times and are listed individually by the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and others contribute to building buildings in the historic district. Some Friends meetings, which are equivalent to other denominational church congregations, were founded in Pennsylvania by the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers in the early 1680s. The thirty-two existing meeting houses, which are equivalent to church buildings, were built before 1800. More than 100 meetinghouses built before 1900 were documented by the American Historical Buildings Survey in a survey leading to their publication of Silent Witness, Quaker Meeting. House In The Delaware Valley, 1695 To Date in 2002.
In 1827, the Great Separation divides Pennsylvania Quakers into two branches, Orthodox and Hicksite. Many private meetings are also separated, but one branch generally holds the property of the meeting hall. The two branches reunited in the 1950s. Other branches, such as Free Quaker, are generally represented in Pennsylvania by a single historic meeting house.
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Further reading
- Brief History Sketch of Past Friends Meeting and Attend with special reference to the Philadelphia Annual Meeting , compiled by T. Chalkey Matlack, Moorestown, NJ 1938. Available at Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College.
- Futhey, John Smith; Cope, Gilbert (1881). The history of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with Genealogy and Biographical Sketches . Philadelphia: L.H. Everts. p.Ã, 782 . Retrieved August 17, 2016 .
External links
- QuakerMeetings.com, "Monthly Meeting in North America: A Quaker Index" - meeting history database (not home meeting)
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