Chester Friends Meetinghouse
Chester Friends Meetinghouse is a Quaker meeting house at 520 East 24th Street in Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The first recorded meeting of Friends in the province of Pennsylvania was in Chester at the house of Robert Wade in 1675.Photo: Smallbones, CC0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Quaker
- Description: quaker meeting house in Pennsylvania, United States
- Also known as: “Chester Friends Meeting”
- Address: 520 East 24th Street, Chester, PA 19013
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Asbury AME Church and Deshong Park.
Asbury AME Church
Church
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Asbury AME Church is an African Methodist Episcopal Church founded in 1845 in Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the second African Methodist Episcopal church founded in Chester behind the Union African Methodist Church in 1832. Asbury AME Church is situated 2,600 feet south of Chester Friends Meetinghouse.
Deshong Park
Park
Deshong Park is a 22 acres park in Chester, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1913 on land donated to the city by wealthy businessman Alfred O. Deshong after his death.
Chester Transit Center
Railway station
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The Chester Transit Center is a SEPTA bus and train station in Chester, Pennsylvania. The outside portion of the ground level serves SEPTA City Transit Division Route 37, and Suburban Transit Division Routes 109, 113, 114, 117, 118, and 119. Chester Transit Center is situated 1½ miles south of Chester Friends Meetinghouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Parkside and Chester.
Parkside
Village
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Parkside is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, Parkside had a population of 2,321.
Chester
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Chester is a city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Chester is a suburb of the city of Philadelphia. The current population estimate is 30,409. The city is predominantly made up of African Americans, making up 79% of the population.
Wallingford
Hamlet
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Wallingford is an unincorporated community in Nether Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1687, it is named for Wallingford, England. In 2007, Wallingford was named by Money Magazine as the ninth best place to live in the United States; two other towns in the area made the top 15.
Chester Friends Meetinghouse
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: City of Chester, Delaware County, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.86943° or 39° 52′ 10″ northLongitude
-75.36388° or 75° 21′ 50″ westOpen location code
87F6VJ9P+QCOpenStreetMap ID
way 1362886034OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=quakerWikidata ID
Q48977402
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