meeting houses
Communal worship buildings
Meeting houses are buildings where groups assemble, especially for worship or community business.
The term is most associated with Quakers, whose plain, unadorned halls reflect their rejection of traditional church hierarchy and ritual.
In colonial New England, meeting houses served both religious and civic functions—sites for Sunday worship and town meetings alike.
The old meeting house still stands at the center of the village green.
- meetinghousePlace for group worship
- historic preservationProtecting significant old structures
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- simple livingIntentional reduction of consumption
- assemblyConstructing from components
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- public buildingscourthouse, government buildings, city halls, civic buildings, municipal buildings
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meeting housescathedrals
Principal churches of dioceses
basilicas · temples · St. Peter's Basilica · Notre-Dame · abbeys
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