The History of Upper Dublin Monthly Meeting         

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Upper Dublin (Friends) Monthly Meeting was established in 1813.  The Meetinghouse was built in 1814 and Meeting for Worship was held for more than one hundred years.  Then it became inactive and regular Meetings were laid down.  In 1940 the Meeting was reopened as a United Monthly Meeting.  
 
In April 1974 the Meetinghouse was registered by the State of Pennsylvania as a Historical Site.  In 1997, an addition was built to provide an all-purpose room, a kitchen and bathrooms.

We have contracted with a local author for write a book on our history. We will make an announcement when it is finished. We expect the PDF version of it to be available free of charge to anyone who is interested in reading it.

 

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Planning your Visit

 

New to Meeting for Worship? 


If you've never attended a Meeting for Worship, we hope you will come worship with us.   

Many have found help in viewing the "introductory" videos to answer questions that might arise in expectation of a Quaker Meeting for Worship.   

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. 

Members and attenders are always invited to speak out of the silence with a message about their spiritual journey, although messages are not responded to directly.

ripples

A message has been described as a pebble tossed into a pond.  The resulting ripples are received by others in the meeting and may contribute to their own spiritual journeys.