Frankford Friends Meeting House
- Frankford Friends Meeting House
Frankford (Preparative) Friends Meeting House is a historic Quaker meeting house in the Frankford neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its oldest parts having been built in 1775-1776, it is significant as the oldest surviving meeting house in Philadelphia.
Located at the corner of Unity and Waln Streets, it is now used also as a community center. [ [http://www.workshopoftheworld.com/frankford/spring.html Article] from "Workshop of the World", by Barbara M. Auwarter and Joyce Halley, (Oliver Evans Press, 1990)]
The Friends meeting
The Quaker meeting here was known from its establishment by the Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting in 1683 as "Tacony" (after a nearby creek), then as "Oxford" (after the township in which it lay), then as "Frankford", then as "Unity" (to distinguish it from another Frankford meeting nearby on Orthodox Street). It is affiliated with the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
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External links
* [http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/pj_display.cfm/115310 Listing] at Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
* [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hh:@field(DOCID+@lit(PA3800)) Listing and drawings] at the Historic American Buildings Survey
* [http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/speccoll/mm/frankpm.xml Brief history of the meeting] at Bryn Mawr College
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