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meeting house

[mee-ting hous] / ˈmi tɪŋ ˌhaʊs /


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For months, activists have been demanding more support from city leadership, explained Elias Siegelman, an activist who works with No ICE Philly, which meets in the quintessentially Pennsylvanian location of a Quaker meeting house.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2026

The meeting house grows progressively more dilapidated, and the costumes get shabbier, indicating that things aren’t going well for the Puritans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

Paul Parker, of Quakers in Britain, said he could not recall anyone being arrested at a Quaker meeting house in living memory.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2025

The church’s original meeting house was destroyed by a tornado in 1834.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2023

The first thing he noticed as he stood looking down at the Green was that the old meeting house had been knocked into a cocked hat by a cannon ball.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes




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