meetinghouse
noun
meet·ing·house
ˈmē-tiŋ-ˌhau̇s 
: a building used for public assembly and especially for Protestant worship
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By 1783, the sect was calling itself the Society of Universal Friends; hundreds clamored to hear the Friend speak, and the society soon boasted multiple meetinghouses in Rhode Island and Connecticut, built in the Quaker mold, without steeples, bell towers, paintings, or murals.
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Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Less than 24 hours later, police say Thomas Jacob Sanford drove his silver pickup truck into the wall of a large room in the Michigan meetinghouse where more than 100 members had gathered for Sunday services.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
There was a separate service Tuesday evening at LDS’ Flint meetinghouse with David Bednar, a senior leader in the LDS Church who’s part of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, said Gary Geiger, a LDS member in metro Detroit who is a spokesman for the church in Michigan.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Next, follow the map down Centre Street to the African Meeting House, one of the nation’s few surviving 19th-century Black meetinghouses.
—New York Times, 31 July 2025
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Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Less than 24 hours later, police say Thomas Jacob Sanford drove his silver pickup truck into the wall of a large room in the Michigan meetinghouse where more than 100 members had gathered for Sunday services.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
There was a separate service Tuesday evening at LDS’ Flint meetinghouse with David Bednar, a senior leader in the LDS Church who’s part of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, said Gary Geiger, a LDS member in metro Detroit who is a spokesman for the church in Michigan.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Next, follow the map down Centre Street to the African Meeting House, one of the nation’s few surviving 19th-century Black meetinghouses.
—New York Times, 31 July 2025
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meetinghouse
noun
meet·ing·house
-ˌhau̇s
: a building used for public assembly and especially for Protestant worship
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