Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse Parsonage and Cemetery

The Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse, Parsonage, and Cemetery (also known as Portsmouth Friends Meeting House or Portsmouth Evangelical Friends Church) is a historic Friends Meeting House and cemetery of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), at 11 Middle Road and 2232 E. Main Road in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse Parsonage and Cemetery
Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse in 2008
LocationPortsmouth, Rhode Island
Coordinates41°35′26.016″N 71°15′15.048″W
Builtca. 1699–1700
NRHP reference No.73000053 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 7, 1973

In 1638, exiled religious dissidents from the Massachusetts Bay Colony founded Portsmouth, the second oldest colonial community in Rhode Island. The Quaker community developed shortly after the community was founded.

The current meetinghouse was built around 1699–1700. The building was used as a Quaker house of worship and school. During the American Revolutionary War, British troops occupied the building. In 1784 the Moses Brown School was founded at the church. The meeting house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[2] Currently, services are held weekly on Sundays at 10:30 am. and 7:00 p.m.. As of 2020, the meeting house is listed for sale.[3]

Portsmouth Friends Meeting House

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  3. https://www.eastbayri.com/stories/history-for-sale-in-portsmouth,77619


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