meetinghouses
Communal worship buildings
Meetinghouses are buildings used for public gatherings, especially for worship.
The term is most associated with Quakers and early New England Puritans, who avoided calling their places of worship "churches." A meetinghouse might also serve civic functions—town meetings, community assemblies.
The old meetinghouse still stands at the center of the village green.
Assembled group of worshippers
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- assemblyConstructing from components
- chapelSmall worship room
- hallInterior connecting pathway
gathering · fellowship · prayer · sanctuary · community · denomination · Mennonite · Amish
Local government headquarters
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- assemblyConstructing from components
- PuritanEnglish Protestant simplifier
- New EnglandNortheast U.S. region
clapboard · steeple · commons · village green · settlers · civic · elections · militia
congregation
Assembled group of worshippers
hall · gathering · fellowship · prayer · sanctuary · community · denomination · Mennonite · Amish · Brethren
town hall
Local government headquarters
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- assemblyConstructing from components
- PuritanEnglish Protestant simplifier
New England · clapboard · steeple · commons · village green · settlers · civic · elections · militia · selectmen
vernacular
Everyday regional speech
- historicOf lasting significance
- gableTriangular wall portion
- clapboardOverlapping exterior wood planks
whitewashed · spire · cupola · belfry · pews · gallery · pulpit · entrance · restoration · preservation
Friends
Nineties sitcom, six Manhattanites
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- silenceTotal lack of sound
- unprogrammedLacking coded instructions
benches · plain · elders · clerks · ministry · gathered · testimony · simplicity · clearness · queries
- churchesBaptist church, Catholic Church, Anglican Church, Baptist churches, Lutheran Church
- Colonial AmericaGeorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Declaration of Independence
- historic sitesruins, historic site, basilica, monument, fortress
- British ChristianityChurch of England, Methodism, Methodists, Anglicanism, dissenters
- Free ChurchesBaptists, Methodists, Quakers, Mennonites, Anabaptists
- New England historyMassachusetts, Boston, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Puritans
meetinghousesprivate residences
Personal living quarters
single-family homes · dwellings · hermitages · cottages · bungalows
meetinghouseshermitages
Isolated religious dwellings
isolation cells · retreats · hideaways · refuges · sanctuaries
meetinghousescasinos
Wagering establishments
nightclubs · shopping malls · amusement parks · bars · taverns