What is "meeting houses"

Usage examples of "meeting houses".

Quakers built meeting houses, and the one Edward Paxmore designed for Patamoke, and built as a testimony of his appreciation for the haven they had provided him, was a masterpiece.

They took the town down, broke their mud-and-wattle, their meeting houses, turned them to dust.

He would wait outside the great libraries of Silbur, sitting on the steps close to the important meeting houses where men of influence and men of God met.

That Sunday they sat silently in their boats', desperate for deliverance, knowing that back on Nantucket thousands of people were sitting on the wooden benches of the North and South Meeting Houses, waiting for God's will to be revealed.

Sooner or later you found someone to walk past all the deserted meeting houses you had to pass between grinning babyhood and grunting senility, Until tonight.

Then there are the smaller, more intimate meeting houses, for adherents of the lesser known or more controversial beliefs, who for the most part deal strictly in cash.

We wish merely to learn names, details, locations of chapters, meeting houses and so forth.