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Organization name Philadelphia Friends meeting, Northern District
Other names Bank Street Friends meeting;Keys Alley Friends meeting
Date founded 1684
Date dissolved 1791
Org type Local meeting
Bio notes The first Bank meeting house was located in Philadelphia on the west side of Front Street, north of Arch, and was built in 1684. The second structure on the site was built in 1702 and was used until 1791 when the meeting moved to a meeting house on Key's Alley. After Northern District was set off in 1772 it met at Bank Street until the move to Keys Alley.
See also Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends
Citations Quaker Landmarks in Early Philadelphia by Edwin W. Bronner (1953)

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Travels in Some Parts of North America, in the Years 1804, 1805, & 1806, by Robert Sutcliff