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Meeting house

A house of worship, especially that of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, and the Mormons.
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meeting house

A house of worship for some Protestant faiths; also may serve as a center of community activity; usually a notably plain structure, often having a square floor plan.
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The most welcome contributions of Loveland and Wheeler's From Meetinghouse to Megachurch are its eighty-two full-color photographs of contemporary evangelical megachurches.
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The church built a twenty-by-thirty-foot structure in 1848, which became the first Baptist meetinghouse west of the Rockies.
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