meetinghouse
noun
meet·ing·house
ˈmē-tiŋ-ˌhau̇s 
: a building used for public assembly and especially for Protestant worship
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Telling Virginia’s untold story Rebuilding First Baptist’s original meetinghouse will fill an important historical gap, while bolstering the museum’s depiction of Virginia’s 18th century capital through interpreters and restored buildings.
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Ben Finley, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 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
The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before constructing a wooden meetinghouse in Virginia, started Thursday with a ceremonial groundbreaking.
—Ben Finley, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
Boards are being cut The museum is rebuilding the 1805 meetinghouse at its original site and will use common wood species from the time: pine, poplar and oak, said Matthew Webster, the museum’s executive director of architectural preservation and research.
—Ben Finley, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
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Ben Finley, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 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
The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before constructing a wooden meetinghouse in Virginia, started Thursday with a ceremonial groundbreaking.
—Ben Finley, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
Boards are being cut The museum is rebuilding the 1805 meetinghouse at its original site and will use common wood species from the time: pine, poplar and oak, said Matthew Webster, the museum’s executive director of architectural preservation and research.
—Ben Finley, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 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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