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Architecture: meeting house

A house of worship for some Protestant faiths; also may serve as a center of community activity; usually a notably plain structure, often having a square floor plan.


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A non-conformist place of worship. The term was (and still is) used particularly by Independents and Quakers.

 
 

 

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