"Let us try what love can do..."

 

615 Montgomery Avenue,
Merion Station PA 19066
(intersection of Montgomery Ave. and Meetinghouse Ln.,
between Narberth and Bala Cynwyd
click for map)
Meeting Phone: 610-664-4210

 

Clerk: Jim Pettyjohn
(click to contact Clerk via e-mail)

 

 

Merion Friends Meetinghouse, built 1695, enlarged 1714

 

 

Meeting for Worship:

11:00 AM Sundays

child care provided
in the Activities Building

Monthly Meeting
for Business
follows the rise of meeting
on the 2nd First Day of each month.
All are welcome to attend.

 

 

Adult Friends First Day
Discussion Group

 

First Day School (Sunday School)

 

 

 

 

 About our Cherry Trees...

 

 

A History of Merion Friends Meeting
"Among the companions of the founder of Pennsylvania, when he arrived on the shores of the Delaware, in the year 1682, were a large number of Welsh people of great respectability and substance. These excellent persons, before they left their native country, had purchased of the proprietary several thousand acres of land on the western side of the Schuylkill, about six miles from the spot fixed upon for the city of Philadelphia; and this tract was called Merioneth, in honour of their birth-place."

 

 

 

 

Announcing

Merion Meeting's
Capital Campaign
To Preserve & Protect
a National Historic Landmark

And special thanks to our early donors!

 

Merion Friends Meeting participated in the AFSC "Virtual Postcard" project:

The postcards to President Obama request
1. No additional troops to be sent to Afghanistan.
2. A timeline for the withdrawal of US troops and for diplomacy and dialogue with all parties to the conflict without preconditions.
3. The provision of badly needed development aid by civilian-led organizations not the military.
4. Redirect the more than $44 billion spent yearly on war funding to human needs in Afghanistan and at home.

Previous events:

Thanks to all who participated in

Jumble Sale 2009

It was another successful fundraiser
to restore our historic meetinghouse!

The Lower Merion Historical Society
in conjunction with
Merion Friends Meeting
presented an Historical Tribute to the

PHILADELPHIA & COLUMBIA RAIL WAY
ITS ROLE IN LOWER MERION
AND THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT

Sunday, March 22, 2009
with the dedication of a display of original "Sleeper" Stones on the grounds of Historic Merion Meeting.

The ceremony included a brief talk about the history of the rail way,
its role in the growth of Lower Merion Township,
the railroad as part of the "Underground Rail Road",
and the involvement of Quaker residents.


The play, "The Witch of Ridley Creek,"
a dramatization of the only witch trial
held in Pennsylvania,
was performed by members and friends
of Merion Friends Meeting
as part of the Welsh Tract celebration.

 

Thanks to all who made
Eyes Wide Open Across Pennsylvania
a moving experience for so many!

 

"An exhibit that speaks directly to our hearts
and reminds us of the human cost of war."

 

 

Over 125 pairs of empty combat boots tagged with the names of Pennsylvanian soldiers who have died in the current Iraq war – displayed, together with a visual representation of thousands of Iraqi civilians who have died during the conflict.

 

 

 

News coverage of Eyes Wide Open at Friends Central School, Memorial Day Weekend, 2007. (Photo by Todd Kimmel)

 

Read the AFSC Spring Tour description of the exhibit at FCS

View slideshow of the event

 

 

 

 

 

Read the AFSC Fall Tour description of the exhibit at Merion

 

www.eyes.afsc.org

 

 

 

Other pages of interest...

 

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