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Friends meeting house
Meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Friends meeting house is a meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), where meeting for worship is usually held.
Notable meeting houses
The Great Friends Meeting House in Newport, Rhode Island was built in 1699 and hosted the New England Yearly Meeting until 1905
Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, built 1708; porch added 1867
Interior of the Arch Street Friends Meeting House in Philadelphia, built 1805
Typically, Friends meeting houses are simple and resemble local residential buildings. Steeples, spires, and ornamentation are usually avoided.[citation needed]
When Quakers speak of a "church," it generally refers to the persons of the worshipping community, rather than the building itself.[citation needed]