Friends Meetinghouse and School
The Friends Meetinghouse and School is a Quaker meeting house and adjacent school building at the corner of Schermerhorn Street and Boerum Place in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Quaker
- Description: Quaker meeting house and adjacent school building in Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Also known as: “Brooklyn Friends Meetinghouse” and “Brooklyn Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)”
- Address: 110 Schermerhorn Street, 11201
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include New York Transit Museum and Brooklyn Bridge.
New York Transit Museum
Museum
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The New York Transit Museum is a museum that displays historical artifacts of the New York City Subway, bus, and commuter rail systems in the greater New York City metropolitan region.
Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is a cable-stayed suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed crossing of the East River. Brooklyn Bridge is situated 1¼ miles north of Friends Meetinghouse and School.
Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Cathedral
Church
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The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Sts. Constantine and Helen, more simply Sts. Constantine and Helen Cathedral is a Greek Orthodox cathedral church at 64 Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn, New York. Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Cathedral is situated 510 feet northwest of Friends Meetinghouse and School.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Downtown Brooklyn and Boerum Hill Historic District.
Downtown Brooklyn
Photo: Red trela, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Downtown Brooklyn is in Brooklyn. In addition to the downtown area proper, it includes Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and the Navy Yard.
Boerum Hill Historic District
Neighborhood
Photo: Edwardhblake, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Boerum Hill Historic District is a national historic district in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, New York City. It originally consisted of 238 contributing residential rowhouses and a few commercial buildings built between 1845 and 1890.
Boerum Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
Boerum Hill is a small neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bounded by Schermerhorn Street to the north and Fourth Avenue to the east.
Friends Meetinghouse and School
- Categories: meeting house, school building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.69005° or 40° 41′ 24″ northLongitude
-73.98949° or 73° 59′ 22″ westElevation
43 feet (13 metres)Open location code
87G8M2R6+26OpenStreetMap ID
node 357618728OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=quakerGeoNames ID
6337582Wikidata ID
Q5504194
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In Other Languages
“Friends Meetinghouse and School” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “贵格会聚会所暨学校”
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