Merion Friends Meeting House

	Merion Friends Meeting House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. National Historic Landmark
	Pennsylvania state historical marker
	Merion Friends Meeting House
Location	615 Montgomery Ave., Merion Station, Pennsylvania
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Built	1696-1714
Architect	local community of Friends
Architectural style	Other
NRHP Reference #	98001194
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	August 5, 1998
Designated NHL	August 6, 1999
Designated PHMC	September 15, 1967

Merion Friends Meeting House in Merion Station,Pennsylvania (a neighborhood in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania) is the second oldest Friends meeting house in the United States (after the Third Haven Meeting House in Maryland) and remains the place of worship of the Merion Monthly Meeting of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The meeting was founded by the first known group of Welsh settlers in the Americas (who arrived in 1682). The meeting house itself was constructed a few years later.

(The name "monthly meeting" reflects the self-governing organization of the Society of Friends. Groups of Quakers who meet each month to conduct business and make decisions regarding their own meetings will meet quarterly with members of other nearby meetings, and will meet yearly with all the Friends in their regional "yearly meeting.")

The meeting house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1999.^[3]^[4] A preservation campaign is underway to make needed repairs while retaining the original architecture and features.

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