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Radnor Friends Meetinghouse is a historic
Quaker Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of Christian denomination, denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belie ...
meeting house on Sproul and Conestoga Roads in Radnor Township,
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. In 1686, there were sufficient number of Friends in Radnor township to begin meetings at the house of John Jerman, a Quaker minister. The current meeting house was built in 1717 with an addition made several years later. An earlier meeting house existed on the site as early as 1693. During the Revolutionary War, the meeting house was used as an outpost for General
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. ''Note:'' This includes The meeting house added to the
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in 1978. Worship services are held weekly at 10am.


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Radnor Monthly Meeting HistoryRadnor Friends Meeting House, Southwest corner of Sproul & Conestoga Roads, Ithan, Delaware County, PA
20 photos, 2 color transparencies, 4 measured drawings, 19 data pages, and 2 photo caption pages at
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