Abington Quarter

What is Abington Quarter?

Abington Quarter consists of the 9 Monthly (Quaker) Meetings, that are primarily located in Montgomery County, with the exception of Richland (Bucks Co.) and Byberry (Northeast Philadelphia). Surrounding Quarterly Meetings are Philadelphia Quarter, a Bucks Quarter, a Salem Quarter, a Caln Quarter and others.

Purpose of Quarterly Meeting:
"The Quarterly Meeting is designed to bring together a larger group of Friends for inspiration and counsel and to consider more varied interests than a Monthly or Preparative Meeting can undertake. It is composed of constituent Monthly Meetings, each of which shall appoint representatives to attend it."
"... Its more helpful function should be to aid and encourage its constituent Monthly Meetings to greater interest and service and to give its members an increasing vision of Truth." (Source: Faith and Practice of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting)

Links to Meetings of Abington Quarter and their Locations

Each of these Monthly Meetings has their own distinctive flavor; small or large membership, varying diversity of age groups and ethnic, social, economic backgrounds and theology. Monthly Meetings are the composite of all its members as they jointly express their faith.

Meeting	Street Address	Website & Email
(1) Abington	520 Meetinghouse Rd Jenkintown, PA 19046	AbingtonQuakers.org amm@abingtonfriends.net
(2) Byberry	3001 Byberry Road Philadelphia PA 19154	ByberryQuakers.org office@byberryquakers.org
(3) Gwynedd	1101 DeKalb Pike Gwynedd, PA 19454	GwyneddMeeting.org office@gwyneddmeeting.org
(4) Horsham	500 Easton Rd Horsham, PA 19044	Horshamquakers.org office@horshamquakers.org
(5) Norristown	20 Jacoby St. Norristown, PA 19401	NorristownFriends.org office@norristownfriends.org
(6) Plymouth	2150 Butler Pike Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462	PlymouthMeetingQuakers.org office@plymouthmeetingquakers.org
(7) Richland	206 South Main St Quakertown, PA 18951	RichlandQuakers.org communications@richlandquakers.org
(8) Unami	Macoby St. and 5th St. Pennsburg, PA 18073	UnamiQuakers.org communications@unamiquakers.org
(9) Upper Dublin	1506 Ft Washington Ave Maple Glen, PA 19002	UpperDublinQuakers.org office@upperdublinquakers.org

For Information about the Quarter (as a whole, as opposed to about an individual Meeting) -
Abington Quarter

For Information about the Yearly Meeting:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (PYM)

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Most Quaker meetings, at least in this part of country, are so-called "unprogrammed" meetings. This means that our meetings for worship are not led by a minister but are largely conducted in silence. Typically, a Clerk or other Member of the Meeting will close worship with a simple "Good morning, friends" but otherwise the meeting may be completely silent.

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