Notable meeting houses
The Great Friends Meeting House in Newport, Rhode Island was built in 1699 and hosted the New England Yearly Meeting until 1905
Plymouth Friends Meetinghouse, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, built 1708; porch added 1867
Chichester Friends Meeting House near Philadelphia, built 1769
Interior of the Arch Street Friends Meeting House in Philadelphia, built 1805
A Friends meeting house is a meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), where meeting for worship is usually held.
Typically, Friends meeting houses are simple and resemble local residential buildings. Ornamentation, spires, and steeples are usually avoided.[citation needed]
When Quakers speak of a "church," it generally refers to the persons of the worshipping community, rather than the building itself.[citation needed]