Jericho Friends Meeting House Complex is a historic

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complex located at 6 Old Jericho Turnpike in

Jericho Jericho ( ; ar, أريحا ; he, יְרִיחוֹ ) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank. It is located in the Jordan Valley, with the Jordan River to the east and Jerusalem to the west. It is the administrative seat of the Jericho Gove ...

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. The complex consists of the meetinghouse (1788), former Friends' schoolhouse (1793), a large gable roofed shed (ca. 1875), and the Friends' cemetery. The meeting house is a two-story, gable roofed timber-framed structure clad in wood shingles. ''Note:'' This includes an
''Accompanying nine photographs''
/ref> One of the people who helped build the meeting house was preacher

Elias Hicks Elias Hicks (March 19, 1748 – February 27, 1830) was a traveling Quaker minister from Long Island, New York. In his ministry he promoted unorthodox doctrines that led to controversy, which caused the second major schism within the Religious Soc ...

(1748 – 1830), who is buried at the cemetery within the complex. It was listed on the

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in 2002.

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Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Churches in Nassau County, New York Quaker meeting houses in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Nassau County, New York {{NewYork-church-stub