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Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting, 20 East Mermaid Lane, Philadelphia

The Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting is a monthly meeting (congregation) of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). First meeting in 1924, they were the first "United" monthly meeting, reconciling Philadelphia Quakers after the Hicksite/Orthodox schism of 1827. The original Meeting House, built in 1931, was located at 100 E. Mermaid Lane in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was replaced in 2012-2013 by the current meeting house, located at 20 E. Mermaid Lane, which incorporates a Skyspace designed by Quaker light artist James Turrell, the second such installation to be incorporated into a working religious space.[1] The new Quaker meeting house is the first to be built in Philadelphia in eighty years.[2]

The Meeting House is an active center for worship and the activities of the Monthly Meeting.[3] Since 1955, it has been a part of the Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting.[4] The meeting has participated in the Yearly Meetings of Friends. The multi-purpose building offers a variety of programs that are open to both Quakers and non-Quakers.[3] The meeting works with the Northwest Interfaith Hospitality Network to provide short term housing for families in transition.[2] It also engages with other community organizations such as the Friends Council and Mt. Airy Learning Tree.

  1. ^ Meads, Helen (2015). "The Quaker Meaning of Light (and James Turrell's work)" (PDF). www.academia.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-05-13. Retrieved 2016-10-13.
  2. ^ a b "Go Inside and Greet the Light: Turrell Skyspace opens at the new Chestnut Hill meeting house". Friends General Conference. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  3. ^ a b Sharpe, Andy (November 8, 2011). "First Quaker meetinghouse in 80 years set for Chestnut Hill-Mt. Airy border". Flying Kite. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  4. ^ "Chestnut Hill Monthly Meeting". Quaker Meeting History. Retrieved 14 October 2016.

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