Friends meeting houses are places of worship for the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. A "meeting" is the equivalent of a church congregation, and a "meeting house" is the equivalent of a church building.

Several Friends meetings were founded in Pennsylvania in the early 1680s. The Merion Friends Meeting House is the only surviving meeting house constructed before 1700. Thirty-two surviving Pennsylvania meeting houses were constructed before 1800, and are listed individually on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) or as contributing properties in historic districts.Friend Meeting House Survey, Historic American Buildings Survey, 2002, notes used for Silent Witness, available at Friends Historic Library at Swarthmore College. More than one hundred meeting houses constructed before 1900 were documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey, and published in Silent Witness: Quaker Meeting Houses in the Delaware Valley, 1695 to the Present (2002). Those that were involved in the Underground Railroad have been identified by the Federal NETWORK TO FREEDOM program (NTF).

One of the key tenets of the Religious Society of Friends is pacifism, adherence to the Peace Testimony. The "Free Quakers" were supporters of the American Revolutionary War, separated from the Society, and built their own meeting house in Philadelphia, at 5th & Arch Streets (1783).

In 1827, the Great Separation divided Pennsylvania Quakers into two branches, Orthodox and Hicksite. Many individual meetings also separated, but one branch generally kept possession of the meeting house. The two branches reunited in the 1950s.

Meeting houses

NamePhotoFoundedConstructedBranchNotesLocationReferenceAbington Friends Meeting House16831786Hicksite520 Meeting House Road, JenkintownFMHSAbington (Orthodox) Friends Meetinghouse18271836Orthodox1059 Jenkintown Road, JenkintownHABSArch Street Friends Meeting House1681 1804, 1811OrthodoxPhiladelphia Yearly Meeting304 Arch Street, PhiladelphiaNHLBart Friends Meeting18201825HicksiteQuaker Church Road, ChristianaBirmingham Friends MeetinghouseMore images17261763HicksiteBirmingham Road near SR 926, West ChesterNRHPBirmingham Orthodox Friends Meeting HouseAbout from Hicksite meeting house; now a private homeNRHPBradford Friends Meetinghouse1716, 17261765Orthodox1364 West Strasburg Road, MarshalltonNRHPBristol Friends Meeting House1707, 17111713–19HicksiteMarket and Woods Streets, BristolFMHS, NRHP HDBuckingham Friends Meeting HouseMore images1701, 17051768Hicksite5684 York Road (US 202), LahaskaNHLNational Historic Landmark Nomination, Buckingham Friends Meeting HouseByberry Friends Meeting House1683, 17011808Hicksite3001 Byberry Road, PhiladelphiaCaln Meeting House17161782SharedIn 1907 the Orthodox Meeting moved to CoatesvilleSR 340, ThorndaleFMHSCatawissa Friends Meetinghouse1775, 17931794South Street, CatawissaFMHSNRHPChester Friends Meetinghouse1675, 16981829, 195424th at Chestnut Street, ChesterNRHPChestnut Hill Friends Meeting19241931, 2012–2013SharedThe 2013 building features a "Skyspace," a skylit room for quiet contemplation100 East Mermaid Lane, Chestnut Hill, PhiladelphiaHABSChichester Friends Meetinghouse1682, 17011769HicksiteMeeting House Road, BoothwynNRHPConcord Friends Meetinghouse16841728. 1788HicksiteOld Concord Road, ConcordvilleNRHP, FMHSDarby Friends Meeting16821805Hicksite1015 Main Street, DarbyNRHP NTFDoe Run1808, 1811188381 Greenlaw Road, Cochraneville Downingtown Friends Meeting House1784, 18111806Uwchlan Monthly Meeting moved here in 1900800 East Lancaster Avenue, DowningtownFMHS, HABSExeter Friends Meeting House1715, 17251759OrthodoxMeeting House Road, StonersvilleFMHSFair Hill Friends Meeting House1702, 18801883Cambria Street at Germantown Avenue, PhiladelphiaFallowfield Friends Meeting House1792, 17961801 (1811?)HicksiteSR 82 at Buck Run Road, ErcildounFMHS2nd Falls Friends Meeting House16831728NAReplaced by the 1789 third meeting house, housed a Friends School; now divided into apartmentsTyburn Road at New Falls Road, FallsingtonFMHS3rd Falls Friends Meeting House(now William Penn Center)1789OrthodoxHouses the William Penn Center9300 New Falls Road, FallsingtonFMHS4th Falls Friends Meeting House(located just north of the William Penn Center)1841HicksiteInterior:9300 New Falls Road, FallsingtonFrankford Friends Meeting House16841775-76HicksiteOrthodox counterpart on Orthodox StreetUnity and Waln Streets, PhiladelphiaFMHSFree Quaker Meetinghouse17801783-84Free QuakerClosed 1836; home of the Apprentices' Library, 1841–1897. In an 1884 engraving:5th and Arch Streets, PhiladelphiaNRHPGermantown Friends Meeting House16901868-69Samuel Sloan and Addison Hutton, architects47 West Coulter Street, PhiladelphiaGoshen Friends Meeting House 17091855814 Chester Road, GoshenvilleGwynedd Friends Meeting House1689, 16981823HicksiteSpring House and Pennllyn Turnpike, Lower GwyyneddOld Haverford Friends Meetinghouse1682, 16841701Hicksite235 East Eagle Road, HavertownFMHSHomeville Friends Meeting House18391839Newark Road at SR 896, HomevilleHorsham Friends Meeting1714, 17171803HicksiteSR 611 and Horsham Road, Horsham TownshipFMHSHorsham Orthodox Friends Meeting House18901890OrthodoxExtant?Saw Mill Lane and Dreshertown Road, Horsham TownshipOld Kennett Meetinghouse1707, 17111731 c.HicksiteUS Route 1, Kennett SquareFMHSLampeter Friends Meeting House1728, 17321889SR 340, Bird-in-HandLittle Elk Friends Meeting House1826Media Road, Hickory HillLondon Grove Friends Meeting House1724, 17751818SR 926 at Newark Road, West Marlborough Township Longwood Progressive Friends Meeting House18541854 US 1 at Longwood GardensMaidencreek Friends Meeting House1732, 17351759HicksiteWest Shore Drive, Kindts Corner (building moved 1929)FMHSMakefield Friends Meeting House1750, 17901760, 1764Hicksite877 Dolington Road, Lower MakefieldNRHP, FMHSMarlboro Friends Meeting House1799, 18021801Part of Marlborough Village Historic District901 Marlborough Springs Road, Marlborough VillageFMHSMedia Monthly Meeting House18781875OrthodoxKnown as Chester Monthly Meeting until 1950?Third Street, MediaMerion Friends Meeting HouseMore images16831695-1714HicksiteIn an 1837 engraving:615 Montgomery Avenue, Merion StationNHL and  Middletown Friends Meeting House1680, 16831793Hicksite453 West Maple Avenue, LanghorneFMHSMiddletown Friends Meetinghouse1686, 17011702, 1770s, 1888435 Middletown Road, Lima Millville Friends Meeting House1795 1846HicksiteMain and Maple Streets, MillvilleHABSNew Garden Friends Meeting House1712, 17151743HicksiteNewark Road, ToughkenamonFMHSNewtown Friends Meeting House1815, 18171817, 1868Hicksite219 Court Street, NewtownNewtown Square Friends Meeting House1696, 17061791Hicksite120 Newtown Road (SR 252), Newtown SquareFMHSNorristown Friends Meeting House1890Swede and Pine Streets, NorristownOxford Friends Meeting House18761879South 3rd Street, OxfordParkersville Friends Meetinghouse18301830HicksiteParkersville Road, south of SR 926 ParkersvilleNRHPPlumsted Friends Meeting House17301752, 18764914 Point Pleasant Pike, DanboroFMHSPlymouth Friends MeetinghouseMore images1703, 17101708, 1780HicksiteGermantown Pike, Plymouth MeetingNRHP Note: This includes Providence Friends Meeting House 16861700, 1727, 1753HicksiteProvidence Road, MediaHABSProvidence Quaker Cemetery and Chapel17891793 Closed 1870SR 4038 at SR 4036 W, Perryopolis, NRHPRace Street Friends Meeting House1855–57Interior:1515 Cherry Street, PhiladelphiaNRHPRadnor Friends MeetinghouseMore images1684, 16981717-18HicksiteSproul Road (SR 320), IthanReading Friends Meeting House 1750, 17561868Wilson Eyre108 North 6th Street, ReadingHABSRichlands Friends Meeting House1710, 17231862Main Street at Mill Road, QuakertownRoaring Creek Friends Meeting1786, 17961795-96HicksiteInterior:Quaker Meeting Road, NumidiaFMHSSadsbury Friends Meeting House1723, 17251747HicksiteSimmontown Road, GapFMHS, HABS, Schuylkill Friends Meeting House18121807, 1816HicksiteCharlestown Friends until 182637 North Whitehorse Road, PhoenixvilleSolebury Friends Meeting House1806, 181118062680 Sugan Road, New HopeSpringfield Friends Meetinghouse1686 1703, 1783, 1850Swarthmore Friends Meeting House1863, 18931881Hicksite12 Whittier Place, SwarthmoreTwelfth Street Meeting House(now George School Meeting House)Circa-1892 photographDisassembled, July 19721813–1814, relocated 1972OrthodoxBuilt by carpenter John D. Smith using elements of the Greater Meeting House, 1813–1814; disassembled and relocated, summer 1972; rebuilt on campus of the George School, 1973–1974, Charles Hough, restoration architect;Charles Hough, "It's all about the trusses," April 2008 lecture, from The George School. rededicated September 24, 1974Original:20 South 12th Street, PhiladelphiaCurrent:George School, Newtown, Bucks CountyHABSUnionville Friends Meeting House1845 1845Now Grange HallSR 82, UnionvilleFMHSUpper Dublin Friends Meeting House18141814HicksiteFort Washington and Limekiln Road, Upper DublinUpper Providence Friends Meeting House1716, 17331828Hicksite8207 Black Rock Road, OaksHABSUwchlan Meetinghouse1712, 17141763 c.OrthodoxVillage Avenue North, LionvilleFMHSValley Friends Meeting House1698, 181018711121 Old Eagle School Road, WayneWarrington Friends Meeting House1769Carlisle Road, WellsvilleWest Chester Meeting House1810, 18131810, 1868Hicksite425 North High Street, West Chester West Grove Friends Meeting House17861903Hicksite153 East Harmony Road, West Grove HABSWest Philadelphia Friends Meeting House18371901Hicksite3500 Lancaster Avenue, PhiladelphiaHABSWest Philadelphia Orthodox Friends Meeting House18781878OrthodoxPowelton and 42nd Streets, PhiladelphiaWillistown Friends Meeting House1753, 17941798HicksitePart of Okehocking Historic District7069 Goshen Road, WhitehorseFMHSWrightstown Friends Meeting Complex16861787HicksiteSR 413, north of NewtownNRHP, FMHSYork Friends Meeting House1754, 17671766, 1783HicksitePhiladelphia Street, YorkFMHS

Demolished meeting houses