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This is a list of Friends meeting houses. Numerous Friends meeting houses are individually notable, either for their congregations or events or for architecture of their historic buildings. Some in the United Kingdom are registered as listed buildings, and in the United States are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.


Australia

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Friends Meeting House, Adelaide The Adelaide meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends ("Quakers") is situated on Pennington Terrace, North Adelaide, South Australia, literally in the shadow of St Peter's Cathedral, on its west side. It is substantially made of timber, ...


France

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Congénies Congénies (; oc, Congènhas) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France. It is situated between Nîmes, Montpellier, the Cévennes and the Camargue and has a strong Quaker history. Congénies possesses the only and oldest purpose ...


United Kingdom

Britain Yearly Meeting is the organization of Quakers in England, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. Several meeting houses have been listed for their architectural merit. Notable individual meeting houses include: *Adderbury Meeting House, Oxfordshire, listed Grade II* *
Amersham Meeting House The Amersham Meeting house is a Friends meeting house (a Quaker place of worship) on Whielden Road in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. It is listed Grade II* on the National Heritage List for England. The meeting for worship is held on Sundays at 11 ...
(1689), Buckinghamshire, listed Grade II* *
Blackheath Quaker Meeting House Blackheath Quaker Meeting House is a Grade II listed building in the London Borough of Lewisham. It has been the home of Blackheath Quaker Meeting since 1972, and is also used by many community groups. Designed by Trevor Dannatt, it is believed t ...
(1972), London, listed Grade II *
Briggflatts Meeting House Brigflatts Meeting House or Briggflatts Meeting House is a Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), near Sedbergh, Cumbria, in north-western England. Built in 1675, it is the second oldest Friends Meeting House in Eng ...
(1675), Cumbria, second oldest in England *
Brighton Friends Meeting House The Brighton Friends Meeting House is a Friends meeting house ( Quaker place of worship) in the centre of Brighton, part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England. The building, which dates from 1805, replaced an earlier meeting ...
(1805), East Sussex *
Farfield Friends Meeting House Farfield Friends Meeting House is a Quaker meeting house no longer regularly in use by a Quaker meeting and now owned by the Historic Chapels Trust. It is located some north of the village of Addingham, West Yorkshire, England. It is recorde ...
(1689), West Yorkshire, a former Quaker meeting house * Finchley Meeting House (1967), London *
Friends Meeting House, Come-to-Good The Friends Meeting House is a meeting house of the Society of Friends (Quakers), in the hamlet of Come-to-Good on the southern border of the parish of Kea, near Truro in Cornwall. It was also known as Kea Meeting House and Feock Meeting House ...
(1710), Cornwall *
Ifield Friends Meeting House The Ifield Friends Meeting House is a Friends meeting house ( Quaker place of worship) in the Ifield neighbourhood of Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. Built in 1676 and used continuously since then by the Quaker community f ...
(1676), West Sussex, listed Grade I *
Jordans Meeting House Jordans is a village in Chalfont St Giles parish, Buckinghamshire, England, and the civil parish of Hedgerley. It is a centre for Quakerism, holds the burial place of William Penn, founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, and so is a popular ...
(1688), Buckinghamshire *Leek Quaker Meeting (1848), Staffordshire *
Littlehampton Friends Meeting House Littlehampton Friends Meeting House is a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) place of worship in the town of Littlehampton, part of the Arun district of West Sussex, England. A Quaker community has worshipped in the seaside town since the 19 ...
, West Sussex, listed Grade II* *
Osmotherley Friends Meeting House Osmotherley Friends Meeting House is a Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), situated in the village of Osmotherley in North Yorkshire, England.GENUKI (UK and Ireland Genealogy), It is a Grade II listed building. ...
(1723), North Yorkshire, listed Grade II *Stafford Quaker Meeting (1730), Staffordshire, a listed building *Uttoxeter and Burton Quaker Meeting (1706), Staffordshire *Warwick Meeting House, Warwickshire, listed Grade II*


Former meeting houses

Several meeting houses are no longer in use by Friends, but are still listed buildings: *Brandeston Meeting House, Suffolk, listed Grade II *Brigstock House, Northamptonshire, listed Grade II *
Quakers Friars Quakers Friars () is a historic building in Broadmead, Bristol, England. The site is the remains of a Dominican friary, Blackfriars that was established by Maurice de Gaunt, c. 1227. Llywelyn ap Dafydd the eldest son and heir of Dafydd ap Gruf ...
, listed Grade I *The Old Meeting House, Wymondham, Norfolk (1687) Grade II


United States

*Delaware **
Appoquinimink Friends Meetinghouse Appoquinimink Friends Meetinghouse, also known as the Odessa Friends Meetinghouse, is a very small but historic Quaker meetinghouse on Main Street in Odessa, Delaware. It was built in 1785 by David Wilson and added to the National Register of ...
, OdessaHarold Wickliffe Rose, ''The Colonial Houses of Worship in America'' (New York: Hastings House, Publishers, 1963). ** Camden Friends Meetinghouse, Camden, Kent County **
Centre Meeting and Schoolhouse Centre Meeting and Schoolhouse, also known as Centre Meeting of Religious Society of Friends, is a historic Quaker meeting house and school located on Center Meeting Road in Centerville, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1796 and i ...
, Centerville ** Friends Meetinghouse (Wilmington, Delaware), Wilmington, (part of Quaker Hill Historic District (Wilmington, Delaware)) **
Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse Hockessin Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house and national historic district located at 1501 Old Wilmington Road in Hockessin, New Castle County, in the U.S. state of Delaware. The district encompasses three contributing b ...
, Hockessin, New Castle County **
Mill Creek Friends Meetinghouse Mill Creek Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house located near Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built as a one-story meeting house for 33 Friends from Mill Creek Hundred who, in 1838, had obtained permission to hold ...
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, New Castle County *Florida **Miami Friends Meeting, Miami **Orlando Friends Meeting, Orlando **Winter Park Friends Meeting, Winter Park *Illinois **
Benjaminville Friends Meeting House and Burial Ground The Benjaminville Friends Meeting House and Burial Ground is a Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), located north of the rural village of Holder in McLean County, Illinois. It was once the site of a now-defunct v ...
, Benjaminville, McLean County *Iowa ** Coal Creek Friends' Meetinghouse, Mahaska County Historical Society/Nelson Pioneer Farm & Museum, Oskaloosa, Iowa **
Honey Creek Friends' Meetinghouse Honey Creek Friends' Meetinghouse is an historic building located in New Providence, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. History The Religious Society of Friends, who were originally from Yadkin ...
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New Providence New Providence is the most populous island in the Bahamas, containing more than 70% of the total population. It is the location of the national capital city of Nassau, whose boundaries are coincident with the island; it had a population of 246 ...
*Kentucky **Berea Friends Meeting, Madison County *Maine ** Casco Friends Meeting House,
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Maple Grove Friends Church The Maple Grove Friends Church is a historic Quaker meeting house on U.S. Route 1A in the Maple Grove village of southern Fort Fairfield, Maine. Built in 1863 and renovated in 1906, it is believed to be the oldest ecclesiastical building in th ...
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Fort Fairfield Fort Fairfield is a town in Aroostook County, eastern Maine, United States, located along the Canada–US border. The population was 3,322 at the 2020 census. History Fort Fairfield is named for John Fairfield, 13th and 16th governor of Main ...
** River Meetinghouse, Vassalsboro *Maryland ** Bethesda Meeting House, Bethesda,
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Colora Meetinghouse The Colora Meetinghouse is a historic Friends (or Quaker) meeting house located at Colora, Cecil County, Maryland, United States. The meeting house was built in 1841 as part of a larger dispute known as the "great separation." The original mem ...
, Colora,
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Deer Creek Friends Meetinghouse Deer Creek Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Friends meeting house located at Darlington, Harford County, Maryland. It is a one-story fieldstone structure, six bays long on the south, four bays on the north, and three bays wide. It was cons ...
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Darlington Darlington is a market town in the Borough of Darlington, County Durham, England. The River Skerne flows through the town; it is a tributary of the River Tees. The Tees itself flows south of the town. In the 19th century, Darlington underwen ...
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Harford County Harford County is located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 census, the population was 260,924. Its county seat is Bel Air. Harford County is included in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is al ...
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East Nottingham Friends Meetinghouse East Nottingham Meetinghouse, or Brick Meetinghouse, is a historic Friends meeting house located at Rising Sun, Cecil County, Maryland. It consists of three different sections: the Flemish bond brick section is the oldest, having been built in ...
, Rising Sun, Cecil County, (also known as Brick Meetinghouse) **
Little Falls Meetinghouse The Little Falls Meetinghouse is a historic Friends meeting house located at Fallston, Harford County, Maryland, United States. It was constructed in 1843 and is a sprawling one-story fieldstone structure with shallow-pitched gable roof and a s ...
, Fallston,
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Neck Meetinghouse and Yard The Neck Meetinghouse and Yard, also known as the Quaker Meetinghouse and Graveyard, is a historic Quaker meetinghouse located at West Denton, Caroline County, Maryland. It is a one-story rectangular frame building with a pitched gable roof mea ...
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, Caroline County **
Old Town Friends' Meetinghouse Old Town Friends' Meetinghouse, also known as Aisquith Street Meeting or Baltimore Meeting, is a historic Quaker meeting house located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story brick building which has undergone several alteration ...
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, (also known as Aisquith Street Meeting, Baltimore Meeting or Patapsco) **
Pipe Creek Friends Meetinghouse Pipe Creek Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Friends meeting house located at Union Bridge, Carroll County, Maryland, United States. It is a -story brick structure in Flemish bond on a stone foundation. The meetinghouse was begun in 1771 and ...
, Union Bridge **
Sandy Spring Friends Meetinghouse The Sandy Spring Friends Meetinghouse is a historic building located at Sandy Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland. It is a large, Flemish bond brick, Federal-style Quaker Meeting House built in 1817. The meetinghouse is on two acres deeded by ...
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Sandy Spring Sandy Spring is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Maryland, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. Geography Sandy Spring's boundaries are roughly defined as Brooke Road and Dr. Bird Road to the north ...
** Third Haven Meeting House, Easton, Talbot County **
West Nottingham Meetinghouse The West Nottingham Meetinghouse, or Little Brick Meetinghouse, is a historic Friends meeting house located at Rising Sun, Cecil County, Maryland, United States. It is a brick one-story building built in 1811, rectangularly shaped, and measurin ...
, Rising Sun, Cecil County *Massachusetts **
Amesbury Friends Meeting House The Amesbury Friends Meetinghouse is a Friends Meeting House at 120 Friend Street in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Built in 1850 under the guidance of John Greenleaf Whittier, it is home to one of the leading Quaker congregations of the region, and ...
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Amesbury Amesbury () is a town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It is known for the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge which is within the parish. The town is claimed to be the oldest occupied settlement in Great Britain, having been first settle ...
, Essex County **
Apponegansett Meeting House The Apponegansett Meeting House or "Apponagansett Meeting House" is a historic Quaker (Friends) meeting house on Russells Mills Road east of Fresh River Valley Road in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Built in 1791, it is the oldest Quaker meeting hou ...
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Dartmouth Dartmouth may refer to: Places * Dartmouth, Devon, England ** Dartmouth Harbour * Dartmouth, Massachusetts, United States * Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada * Dartmouth, Victoria, Australia Institutions * Dartmouth College, Ivy League university i ...
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Bristol County Bristol County may refer to: Places * Bristol County, Massachusetts Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the no ...
** East Blackstone Friends Meetinghouse, Blackstone, Worcester County ** East Hoosac Quaker Meeting House, Adams,
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** Long Plain Friends Meetinghouse, Acushnet, Bristol County **
Pembroke Friends Meetinghouse The Pembroke Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker church at Washington Street and Schoosett Street in Pembroke, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. The meeting house was built in 1706 by Robert Barker with later 19th-century additions. It ...
, Pembroke, Plymouth County ** Salem Friends Meeting House,
Salem Salem may refer to: Places Canada Ontario * Bruce County ** Salem, Arran–Elderslie, Ontario, in the municipality of Arran–Elderslie ** Salem, South Bruce, Ontario, in the municipality of South Bruce * Salem, Dufferin County, Ontario, part ...
, Essex County, (relocated to grounds of Peabody Essex Museum) ** Uxbridge Friends Meeting House, Uxbridge, Worcester County *Michigan ** Raisin Valley Friends Meetinghouse, Adrian Charter, Lenawee County *New Hampshire ** Dover Friends Meetinghouse,
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Strafford County Strafford County is a county in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. As of the 2020 census, the population was 130,889. Its county seat is Dover. Strafford County was one of the five original counties identified for New Hampshire in 1769. It was n ...
*New Jersey **
Alloways Creek Friends Meetinghouse Alloways Creek Friends Meetinghouse (also called Hancock's Bridge Friends Meetinghouse and Lower Alloways Creek Friends Meetinghouse) is a historic Quaker meeting house on Buttonwood Avenue, 150 feet west of Main Street in the Hancock's Bridge ...
, Hancock's Bridge, Salem County **
Arney's Mount Friends Meetinghouse and Burial Ground Arney's Mount Friends Meetinghouse and Burial Ground is a historic Quaker meeting house located at the intersection of Mount Holly-Juliustown and Pemberton-Arney's Mount Roads in Arney's Mount, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.Haro ...
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Burlington County Burlington County is a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The county is the largest by area in New Jersey. Its county seat is Mount Holly.
** Cropwell Friends Meeting House, Cropwell, Burlington County ** Evesham Friends Meeting House,
Mount Laurel Mount Laurel is a township in Burlington County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is a suburb of Philadelphia and part of the South Jersey region. As of the 2010 U.S. census, the township's population was 41,864, reflecting an increase of 1 ...
, Burlington County **Haddonfield Friends Meeting House,
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, Camden County ** Little Egg Harbor Friends Meeting House, Tuckerton, Ocean County **
Moorestown Friends School and Meetinghouse Moorestown Friends School and Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker school and meetinghouse on Main Street at Chester Avenue in Moorestown Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. The Friends Meeting hosts Quaker worship every Sunda ...
, Moorestown **
Newton Friends' Meetinghouse Newton Friends' Meetinghouse is the home of an active meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, who meet in a historic Quaker meeting house at 808 Cooper Street in Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, United States. It was built in 1824 as ...
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** Quakertown Friends Meeting House, Quakertown,
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Stony Brook Meeting House and Cemetery Stony Brook Meeting House and Cemetery are historic Quaker sites located at the Stony Brook Settlement at the intersection of Princeton Pike/Mercer Road and Quaker Road in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The first Europeans to settle in the ...
, Princeton **
Trenton Friends Meeting House Trenton Friends Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house at 142 E. Hanover Street in Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered ...
, Trenton ** Upper Greenwich Friends Meetinghouse, Mickleton, Gloucester County ** Woodbury Friends' Meetinghouse,
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Amawalk Friends Meeting House Amawalk Friends Meeting House is located on Quaker Church Road in Yorktown Heights, New York, United States. It is a timber frame structure built in the 1830s. In 1989 it and its adjoining cemetery were listed on the National Register of Historic ...
, Yorktown Heights ** Beekman Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery, LaGrangeville **Bethpage Friends Meeting House, Farmingdale ** Boerum Friends Meeting House and School,
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John Bowne House The John Bowne House is a house in Flushing, Queens, New York City, that is known for its role in establishing religious tolerance in the United States. Built around 1661, it was the location of a Quaker meeting in 1662 that resulted in the ar ...
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Flushing, Queens Flushing is a neighborhood in the north-central portion of the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is the fourth-largest central business district in New York City. Downtown Flushing is a major commercial and retail area, and the ...
, New York City ( John Bowne was arrested in 1662 for hosting a meeting in his house.) ** Brooklyn Friends Meeting House and School, Brooklyn, New York City ** Chappaqua Friends Meeting House, Chappaqua, Westchester County, (built in 1754) **
Clinton Corners Friends Church Clinton Corners Friends Church is a historic Society of Friends meeting house on Salt Point Turnpike/Main Street in Clinton Corners, Dutchess County, New York, United States. It is located directly across the street from the Creek Meeting House ...
, Clinton Corners,
Dutchess County Dutchess County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 295,911. The county seat is the city of Poughkeepsie. The county was created in 1683, one of New York's first twelve counties, and later organ ...
** Clinton Hill Orthodox Friends Meeting House, Brooklyn, New York City (now Apostolic Faith Mission) ** Cornwall Friends Meeting House, New York **
Creek Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery Creek Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery is a historic Society of Friends meeting house and cemetery on Salt Point Turnpike/Main Street in Clinton Corners, Dutchess County, New York, United States. It was built between 1777 and 1782. The meeti ...
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Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery Crum Elbow Meeting House and Cemetery is a historic Society of Friends meeting house and cemetery in East Park East Park may refer to: Places in the UK *East Park, Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England *East Park, Wolverhampton ...
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East Park East Park may refer to: Places in the UK *East Park, Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England *East Park, Wolverhampton, a park in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England * East Park (ward), an electoral ward of the Wolverhampton City Co ...
, Dutchess County **
Easton Friends North Meetinghouse Easton Friends North Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house located at North Easton Easton is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 25,058 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Greater Boston area. ...
, Middle Falls, Washington County ** Farmington Quaker Crossroads Historic District, Farmington, New York, NRHP-listed **
Greenfield Preparative Meeting House Greenfield Preparative Meeting House, also known as the Catskill Meeting House, is a historic Quaker meeting house located in Grahamsville in Sullivan County, New York. It was built in 1838–1839, and is a one-story, six bay by two bay, recta ...
, Grahamsville, Sullivan County **
Jericho Friends Meeting House Complex Jericho Friends Meeting House Complex is a historic Quaker meeting house complex located at 6 Old Jericho Turnpike in Jericho, Nassau County, New York. The complex consists of the meetinghouse (1788), former Friends' schoolhouse (1793), a large ...
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, Nassau County **
Matinecock Friends Meetinghouse Matinecock Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house located on the northwest corner of Piping Rock and Duck Pond Roads in Locust Valley, Nassau County, New York. It was built in 1725 and is a two-story, rectangular building topped ...
, New York **
Nine Partners Meeting House and Cemetery The Nine Partners Meeting House and Cemetery is located at the junction of NY state highway 343 and Church Street, in the village of Millbrook, New York, United States. The meeting house, the third one on the site, was built by a group of Frien ...
, Millbrook, Dutchess County **
North Street Friends Meetinghouse The North Street Friends Meetinghouse is a brick structure on Brick Church Road near Aurora, New York. It is significant for its associations with abolition, the Underground Railroad and the Women's Rights Movement in Central New York. an''Acc ...
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, Cayuga County **
Oblong Friends Meeting House The Oblong Friends Meeting House is a mid-18th century Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends in the hamlet of Quaker Hill, in the town of Pawling, Dutchess County, New York, United States listed in the National Register of ...
, Pawling, Dutchess County **
Old Quaker Meeting House (Queens) The Flushing Friends Quaker Meeting House, also the Old Quaker Meeting House, is a historic Quaker house of worship located at 137-16 Northern Boulevard, in Flushing, Queens, New York. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1967 and a ...
, Flushing, Queens, New York City, NRHP-listed ** Orchard Park Friends Meeting House,
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, FGC Affiliated ** Oswego Meeting House and Friends' Cemetery, Oswego, Oswego County ** Poughkeepsie Meeting House (Hooker Avenue), Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County **
Poughkeepsie Meeting House (Montgomery Street) Poughkeepsie Meeting House (Montgomery Street) is a historic meeting house at 112 Montgomery Street in Poughkeepsie, New York. It was built in 1863 for the Society of Friends (Quakers). The building was sold to the Temple Beth El, a local Jewis ...
, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County ** Quaker Street Historic District, Duanesburg, New York, NRHP-listed **
Rye Meeting House Rye Meeting House, also known as Milton Mission Chapel, Grace Chapel, and the Friends Meeting House, is a historic Quaker meeting house located at Rye, Westchester County, New York. The property is adjacent to the Bird Homestead. It is a one-sto ...
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, Westchester County ** Smith Clove Meetinghouse,
Highland Mills Highland Mills is a hamlet and former census-designated place (CDP) in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 3,468 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Poughkeepsie– Newburgh– Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistica ...
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Orange County Orange County most commonly refers to: *Orange County, California, part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area Orange County may also refer to: U.S. counties *Orange County, Florida, containing Orlando *Orange County, Indiana *Orange County, New ...
** Society of Friends Hall, Glen Falls, Warren County **
Upperville Meeting House Upperville Meeting House is a historic Friends meeting house on New York State Route 80 in Upperville, Chenango County, New York. It was built in 1896 and is a one-story rectangular wood-frame building on a dressed stone foundation. It is built ...
, Upperville, Chenango County *North Carolina **
Cane Creek Friends Meeting The Cane Creek Friends Meeting, founded in 1751, is considered the first established Quaker community in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. The site was occupied by British troops during the American Revolutionary War. History Simon Dixon ...
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Snow Camp Snow Camp is an unincorporated community in southern Alamance County, North Carolina, United States, noted for its rich history and as the site of the Snow Camp Outdoor Theater. The community has a large Quaker population centered on the pre-revo ...
** Deep River Friends Meeting House and Cemetery, High Point **
Friends Spring Meeting House Spring Friends Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house located at Snow Camp, Alamance County, North Carolina. The fourth and current meeting house was built in 1907, and is a small rectangular frame one-story gable-front building. It fe ...
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Snow Camp Snow Camp is an unincorporated community in southern Alamance County, North Carolina, United States, noted for its rich history and as the site of the Snow Camp Outdoor Theater. The community has a large Quaker population centered on the pre-revo ...
** New Garden Meeting House, Guilford County ** Springfield Friends Meeting, Guilford County ** West Grove Friends Spring Meeting House, Alamance County *Ohio **
Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House The Concord Hicksite Friends Meeting House is a historic Friends meeting house located near the community of Colerain, Ohio, United States. Constructed in 1815 for a group formed in 1801, it has been named a historic site. Founded as "Concord" ...
, east of Colerain,
Belmont County Belmont County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 66,497. Its county seat is St. Clairsville. The county was created on September 7, 1801, and organized on November 7, 1801.McKelvey, ...
, Ohio ** Green Plain Monthly Meetinghouse, South Charleston, Clark County ** Mount Pleasant Friends Meeting House, Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County ** Wilmington Friends Meeting House, Wilmington,
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Abington Friends Meeting House Abington Friends Meeting House is a Quaker meeting house located in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. The original meeting house was established from 1698 to 1699, with land and a 100 pounds sterling donated by John Barnes. In 1784, a separate school bu ...
, Jenkintown,
Montgomery County Montgomery County may refer to: Australia * The former name of Montgomery Land District, Tasmania United Kingdom * The historic county of Montgomeryshire, Wales, also called County of Montgomery United States * Montgomery County, Alabama * Mon ...
** Arch Street Friends Meeting House, Philadelphia **
Birmingham Friends Meetinghouse Birmingham Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house at 1245 Birmingham Road in Birmingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The current meetinghouse was built in 1763. The building and the adjacent cemetery were near the cent ...
, Birmingham Township,
Chester County Chester County may refer to: * Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States * Chester County, South Carolina, United States * Chester County, Tennessee, United States * Cheshire or the County Palatine of Chester, a ceremonial county in the North Wes ...
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Buckingham Friends Meeting House The Buckingham Friends Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house at 5684 Lower York Road (United States Route 202) in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Built in 1768 in a "doubled" style, it is nationally significant as ...
, Buckingham Township, Bucks County, NRHP-listed ** Birmingham Orthodox Meeting House, Birmingham Township, Chester County ** Bradford Friends Meetinghouse, Marshallton, Chester County, (also called Marshallton Meeting House) **
Caln Meeting House Caln Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house located at 901 Caln Meeting House Road, near Coatesville in Caln Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1726, and is a one-story, tan fieldstone structure. It was enlarged ...
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Caln Township Caln Township () is a township in Chester County, Pennsylvania, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 14,428 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. The township was founded by settlers from Calne, Wiltshire in En ...
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Catawissa Friends Meetinghouse Catawissa Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meetinghouse at South and 3rd Streets in Catawissa, Columbia County, Pennsylvania. It was built about 1789, and is a one-story log building on a stone foundation. It measures by . ''Note:' ...
, Catawissa, Columbia County ** Chester Friends Meetinghouse,
Chester Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Dee, close to the English–Welsh border. With a population of 79,645 in 2011,"2011 Census results: People and Population Profile: Chester Loca ...
** Chichester Friends Meetinghouse,
Upper Chichester Township Upper Chichester Township is a civil township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 16,738 at the 2010 census. History The Lenni Lenape Indians were the earliest occupants of Upper Chichester. They erected several s ...
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Concord Friends Meetinghouse Concord Friends Meetinghouse is a historic meeting house on Old Concord Road in Concordville, Pennsylvania, Concordville, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The meeting was first organized sometime before 1697, as the sixth Quaker meeting in what was ...
, Concordville, Delaware County ** Darby Friends Meeting, Darby, Pennsylvania, Delaware County (founded 1682) ** Frankford Friends Meeting House, Frankford, Philadelphia **
Free Quaker Meetinghouse The Free Quaker Meetinghouse is a historic Free Quaker meeting house at the southeast corner of 5th and Arch Streets in the Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1783, and is a plain 2 -stor ...
, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, NRHP-listed **
Horsham Friends Meeting Horsham Friends Meeting is a Quaker meeting house located in Horsham, Pennsylvania, home to Horsham Monthly Meeting. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1991-06-21. In addition to serving as a place of worship ...
, Horsham Township, Bucks County **
Makefield Meeting Makefield Meeting, also known as the Makefield Monthly Meeting; Meeting House at Dolington, is an historic, American Quaker meeting house complex that is located in Upper Makefield Township, Pennsylvania, Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County, ...
, Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County **
Merion Friends Meeting House The Merion Friends Meeting House is an active and historic Quaker meeting house at 615 Montgomery Avenue in Merion Station, Pennsylvania. Completed about 1715, it is the second oldest Friends meeting house in the United States (after the Third ...
, Merion Station, Montgomery County **
Middletown Friends Meetinghouse Middletown Preparative Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house at 513 N Old Middletown Road in Lima, Pennsylvania, Lima, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, De ...
, Lima, Delaware County ** Newtown Friends Meetinghouse, Newtown Township, Delaware County **
Old Haverford Friends Meetinghouse 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. In ...
, Havertown, Delaware County, (founded 1683) ** Old Kennett Meetinghouse, Kennett Township near
Chadds Ford Chadds Ford is a census-designated place (CDP) in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Chester County, Pennsylvania, Chester counties, Pennsylvania, United States, comprising the unincorporated area, unincorporated communities of Chadds F ...
, Chester County **
Parkersville Friends Meetinghouse Parkersville Friends Meetinghouse, also known as Kennett Preparative Meeting of Friends, is a historic Quaker meeting house located in Pennsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1830, and rebuilt in 1917 after a fire. '' ...
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ** Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse, Plymouth Township, Montgomery County **
Providence Quaker Cemetery and Chapel Providence Quaker Cemetery and Chapel, also known as Providence Meeting House, is a historic chapel and cemetery located on Quaker Church Road about 2 miles southwest of Perryopolis, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The cemetery was used by Quake ...
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Perryopolis Perryopolis is a borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The borough is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The population was 1,705 at the 2020 census. History George Washington purchased here when land first became available. He visit ...
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Race Street Friends Meetinghouse The Race Street Meetinghouse is an historic and still active Quaker meetinghouse at 1515 Cherry Street at the corner of N. 15th Street in the Center City area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Friends Center Corp.History of Friends Center. Accessed ...
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Radnor Friends Meetinghouse Radnor Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house on Sproul and Conestoga Roads in Radnor Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. In 1686, there were sufficient number of Friends in Radnor township to begin meetings at the house ...
, Radnor Township, Delaware County ** Schuylkill Friends Meeting House, Phoenixville, Chester County **
Springfield Friends Meeting House The Springfield Friends Meetinghouse is a Quaker meeting house that is located at 1001 Old Sproul Road in Springfield Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known a ...
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Springfield Springfield may refer to: * Springfield (toponym), the place name in general Places and locations Australia * Springfield, New South Wales (Central Coast) * Springfield, New South Wales (Snowy Monaro Regional Council) * Springfield, Queenslan ...
, Delaware County **
Upper Dublin Friends Meeting House The Upper Dublin Friends Meeting House is a Quaker meeting house located at the intersection of Fort Washington Avenue and Meetinghouse Roads in Upper Dublin Township, Pennsylvania in the United States. The building was constructed in 1814 on la ...
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Upper Dublin Township Upper Dublin Township is a township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 25,569 at the 2010 census. Until the 1950s, Upper Dublin was mostly farmland and open space, but transitioned to a residential suburb durin ...
, Montgomery County ** Uwchlan Meetinghouse, Uwchlan Township, Chester County **
Warrington Meetinghouse Warrington Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house on PA 74 in Wellsville, Warrington Township, York County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1769, and is a one-story, uncoursed fieldstone building with a steeply pitched gable roof. ''Not ...
, Warrington, York County ** Wrightstown Friends Meeting Complex, Wrightstown, Bucks County **
York Meetinghouse The York Meetinghouse is an historic, American Quaker meeting house that is located at 135 West Philadelphia Street in York, York County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. History and architectural ...
, York, York County *Rhode Island ** Conanicut Friends Meetinghouse, Conanicut Island, Jamestown **
Friends Meeting House and Cemetery The Friends Meeting House and Cemetery is a historic Quaker meeting house and cemetery at 228A W. Main Road in Little Compton, Rhode Island. The meeting house is a two-story wood-frame structure built in 1815 by the Religious Society of Frien ...
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Great Friends Meeting House Great Friends Meeting House is a meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) built in 1699 in Newport, Rhode Island. The meeting house, which is part of the Newport Historic District, is currently open as a museum owned by the Ne ...
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Newport Newport most commonly refers to: *Newport, Wales *Newport, Rhode Island, US Newport or New Port may also refer to: Places Asia *Newport City, Metro Manila, a Philippine district in Pasay Europe Ireland *Newport, County Mayo, a town on the ...
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Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse Parsonage and Cemetery The Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse, Parsonage, and Cemetery (also known as Portsmouth Friends Meeting House or Portsmouth Evangelical Friends Church) is a historic Friends Meeting House and cemetery of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), ...
, Portsmouth **
Saylesville Meetinghouse The Saylesville Friends Meetinghouse is an historic Quaker meetinghouse located at 374 Great Road within the village of Saylesville in the town of Lincoln, Rhode Island. The Quaker (Society of Friends) meetinghouse was built in 1703–04, cons ...
, Saylesville **
Smithfield Friends Meeting House, Parsonage and Cemetery The Smithfield Friends Meeting House, Parsonage and Cemetery, is a Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), rebuilt in 1881. It is located at 108 Smithfield Road ( Route 146A) in Woonsocket, Rhode Island (across the ...
, Smithfield * South Carolina ** Bush River Monthly Meeting, Bush River, Newberry County, South Carolin

The State, "An Old Quaker Settlement. An Interesting Sketch of a Colony in Newberry," Columbia, South Carolina, February 8, 1897. ** Camden, South Carolina, Camden, Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina
Old Quaker Cemetery Old Quaker Cemetery, founded in 1759, is a cemetery located in Camden, South Carolina, in Kershaw County. It dates back to the earliest days of Camden, which was first settled in 1730, and is the oldest inland city in South Carolina. The cemetery ...
*Tennessee ** Friends Church (Maryville, Tennessee), Maryville, Blount County, NRHP-listed. Now St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. *Texas **
Live Oak Friends Meeting House Live Oak Friends Meeting House is a Quaker meeting house located at 1318 West 26th Street in the Heights area of Houston, Texas, United States. The meeting house, which was completed in December 2000, was designed and built to house the Live Oak ...
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Houston Heights Houston Heights (often referred to simply as "The Heights") is a community in northwest-central Houston, Texas, United States. "The Heights" is often referred to colloquially to describe a larger collection of neighborhoods next to and including ...
, Houston. Located at 1318 West 26th Street, noted for its Skyspace by artist James Turrell ** Friends Meeting of San Antonio,
Alamo Heights Alamo Heights is an incorporated city that is surrounded by the city of San Antonio in Bexar County in the U.S. state of Texas. At the time of the 2020 census, the population of Alamo Heights was 7,357. It is part of the Greater San Antonio metrop ...
, San Antonio. Located at 7052 N Vandiver Rd, San Antonio, TX 78209 *Vermont ** South Starksboro Friends Meeting House and Cemetery, Starksboro,
Addison County Addison County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Vermont. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 37,363. Its shire town (county seat) is the town of Middlebury (town), Vermont, Middle ...
*Virginia ** Hopewell Meeting House, Clear Brook, Frederick County **
South River Friends Meetinghouse The South River Friends Meetinghouse, or Quaker Meeting House, is a historic Friends meeting house located at Lynchburg, Virginia. It was completed in 1798. It is a rubble stone structure, approximately , with walls 16 inches thick, and 12 feet ...
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Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse The Woodlawn Quaker Meetinghouse is located at 8890 Woodlawn Road in Alexandria, Virginia, United States. The meetinghouse and its associated cemetery are significant for their role in the Quaker community in this area of Virginia in the mid to ...
, Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County, NRHP-listed *Washington, D.C. **
Meeting House of the Friends Meeting of Washington Meeting House of the Friends Meeting of Washington (Friends Meeting House) is a historic Quaker meeting house at 2111 Decatur Place in NW Washington, DC. The Colonial Revival building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1 ...
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