Friends Meeting House |
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| Title : | Friends Meeting House |
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| Creator : | Moore, Patricia, photographer | ||
| Date of creation : | 2003 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Dimensions : | 375 x 550 | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
In 1840 London members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) donated a pre-fabricated building to be used as a Meeting House by the early South Australian Quaker community. Because of difficulties with transporting the materials to Mount Barker, where the earliest Friends in South Australia had settled, the building was erected on land in North Adelaide which had previously been given by John Barton Hack as a burial ground. One of the original trustees, Samuel Gurney, was the youngest brother of prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, and cousin to another Quaker, Edward Gibbon Wakefield. |
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| Related names : | Fry, Elizabeth Gurney, 1780-1845 |
| Coverage year : | 2003 |
| Period : | 1946-1979 |
| Place : | North Adelaide (S. Aust.) |
| Region : | Adelaide metropolitan area |
| Further reading : | Goldney, F.H. The Quaker meeting house, North Adelaide, [Adelaide]: Pioneers Association of South Australia, 1968 'Meeting house for the Society of Friends', Adelaide chronicle and South Australian advertiser, 24 December 1839, p. 4 Stevenson, Charles. The millionth snowflake: the history of Quakers in South Australia, North Adelaide, S. Aust.: The Religious Society of Friends (Adelaide Meeting), 1987 |
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