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Yearly Meeting is an organization composed of constituent meetings or churches of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, within a geographical area. The constituent meetings are called Monthly Meetings in most of the world; in England, local congregations are now called Area Meetings, in Australia Monthly Meetings are called Regional ...
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting is one of the oldest [1] Yearly Meetings in the Religious Society of Friends. It traces its origins to 1682 when a monthly meeting of Friends in Philadelphia was established at the now-demolished Bank Street Meeting House. [2] By 1707, it had published its own "book of discipline", the standards and practices by ...
Baltimore Yearly Meeting (officially the Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends) is a body of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers) headquartered in Sandy Spring, Maryland, that includes Friends from Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and West Virginia.
Britain Yearly Meeting is the national organisation of Quakers in Britain. Its membership consists of the members of all Area Meetings in England, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands. Any member of Britain Yearly Meeting is entitled to attend the Yearly Meeting gathering.
The twentieth century also saw the emergence of three broad confederations of yearly meetings--now known as Friends United Meeting, Friends General Conference, and Evangelical Friends Church International--roughly corresponding to Gurneyite, Hicksite, and Evangelical patterns.
Founded in 1694, New York Yearly Meeting is the denominational organization for meetings (congregations) in New York State, northern New Jersey, and southwestern Connecticut. (We call ourselves a “yearly meeting” because for centuries we met annually to do our collective business, though now we meet three times a year.)
Baltimore Yearly Meeting is a body of the Religious Society of Friends headquartered in Sandy Spring, Maryland that includes Friends from Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and West Virginia. It is one of the oldest yearly meetings in North America, first meeting in May 1672.
