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Where Friends Meet
Today’s Quakers may live modern lives, but their historic houses of worship
are touchstones to a simpler past.
BY ROGER MORRIS | PHOTOS BY JIM GRAHAM
Dr. Freeman Miller started coming to Centre Friends Meeting 35 years ago— and like many who attend, he wasn’t born into a Quaker family. “My family in Ohio was Amish, and I went to Mennonite services,” he says.
Set in rolling countryside east of Centreville, Centre Friends is one of several meeting houses found across the region. The one-story brick structure contains
rows of wooden benches (or pews) in a large room divided in half by a wall with wooden panels that slide open. Each side has a wood-burning stove and little else. Light is provided by the sun and candles. The windowpanes are original, dating to 1796.
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