National Historic Landmark - Merion Friends Meeting House

Merion Friends Meeting House is the building most closely associated with the Merioneth Adventurers, a group of Welsh Quakers who came to Pennsylvania in 1682.

The earliest known migration of Celtic-speaking Welsh people in the Western Hemisphere, they came in response to the egalitarian policies that William Penn practiced in his colony.

The building is the second-oldest Friends meeting house in the country, having been started ca. 1695 and completed by 1714.

The stone walled church, now stuccoed, is in the form of a T, and is a rare survivor of Welsh-inspired vernacular architecture.

Courtesy National Park Service National Historical Landmarks

Photo Courtesy Library of Congress Historic American Building Survey