NYC Houses of Worship: Friends Meeting House

Name: NYC Houses of Worship: Friends Meeting House
Uploaded: 2017-10-16T22:12:00+00:00
Duration: 2 min 43 s
Description: The year is 1694, five years after the British passed the Toleration Act allowing some, but not all, religions that dissented from the Church of England to practice out in the open. That freedom was extended to include a small English colony in what is now Flushing, Queens. There, the Religious Society of Friends erected a meeting house.

The year is 1694, five years after the British passed the Toleration Act allowing some, but not all, religions that dissented from the Church of England to practice out in the open. That freedom was extended to include a small English colony in what is now Flushing, Queens. There, the Religious Society of Friends erected a meeting house.

Posted October 16, 2017 6:36pm EDT