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Christian Meeting House

Christian Meeting House (Petersburg Christian Church) is a historic church meeting house at 6561 Tanner Street in Petersburg, Kentucky.

Elias Hicks

On January 2, 1771, Hicks married a fellow Quaker, Jemima Seaman, at the Westbury Meeting House and they had eleven children, only five of whom reached adulthood.


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Airton

There is still a Quaker meeting house, a squatter's cottage on the village green and an old mill on the River Aire from which the village is named.

Benjaminville Friends Meeting House and Burial Ground

The Benjaminville Friends Meeting House is located on a relatively elevated area of land east of Bloomington, Illinois, near the community of Holder.

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.

Bernard Walke

With Gerard Collier he organised prayer meetings for out-of-work miners at the Friends' Meeting House in Redruth.

Bishop of Edinburgh

In 1690 it was Bishop Alexander Rose (1687–1720) whose unwelcome reply to King William III led to the disestablishment of the Scottish Episcopalians as Jacobite sympathisers, and it was he who led his congregation from St. Giles to a former wool store as their meeting house, on the site now occupied by Old Saint Paul's Church.

Christ Church, Philadelphia

American Revolutionary War leaders who attended Christ Church include George Washington, Robert Morris, Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross (after she had been read out of the Quaker meeting house to which she belonged for marrying John Ross, son of an assistant rector at Christ Church).

Coanwood Friends Meeting House

The meeting house is historically important because it has not been modified since then, other than the original heather-thatch roof being replaced by slates during the 19th century.

Elwood Township, Vermilion County, Illinois

It was named after the Elwood Meeting House, which had been named for Thomas Ellwood.

First Church of Christ, Unitarian

The current meeting house was built in 1816 of local brick and slate when Nathaniel Thayer was minister.

Indian Church

Old Indian Meeting House, an historic church and meeting house in Mashpee, Massachusetts

Nicholas Upsall

In 1694, Edward Shippen, the first mayor of Philadelphia under the city charter, gave a piece of land for a Friends Meeting House.

Obadiah Grew

James II's declaration for liberty of conscience (11 April 1687) restored Grew to his congregation, who obtained a grant of St. Nicholas' Hall (the 'Leather Hall') in West Orchard, and fitted it up as a presbyterian meeting-house.

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.

Parkville, Michigan

The dedication of the Seventh-day Adventist meeting house in Parkville was on January 12, 1861, and was attended by Ellen G. White.

Selby Clewer

He was responsible for the design of Quinton Methodist Church in 1968, St. David's Church, Shenley Green which opened in 1970 and the Friends Meeting House in Redditch and the adjoining housing complex, built for the Redditch Friends Housing Trust.

Smithfield Friends Meeting House, Parsonage and Cemetery

Their original Meeting House, built in 1719, was connected to a chain of Quaker Meeting Houses that were built along Great Road (near Union Village and Smithfield Road Historic District).

South Sutton Meeting House

South Sutton Meeting House is a historic meeting house at 17 Meeting House Hill Road in South Sutton, New Hampshire.

St Michael's Catholic Church, Moor Street

When the New Meeting House became unsuitable for congregation, they started construction on a new place of worship on Broad Street.

Stony Brook Meeting House and Cemetery

Though tall hardwood trees of the Princeton Battlefield State Park and Institute Woods cover those fields today, the meeting house offered a clear line of sight to the opening skirmish at William Clarke’s orchard.

Whittier Friends Meeting House

Whittier Friends Meeting House (also known as Springville Friends Meeting House; Quaker Corners) is a historic church building at the junction of County Roads E34 and X20 in Whittier, Iowa.

Wortwell

Ezekiel Blomfield (1778–1818), a Congregational minister, author and compiler of religious works and works on natural history, was buried 21 July 1818 in the grounds of the Meeting House at Wortwell.