Quaker Churches

The Quaker family recorded in this atlas, the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations that began in seventeenth-century England, whose members call each other Friends and are generally united by a belief in the inward light that guides each person. This group holds Quakerism (Religious Society of Friends). Quaker groups range from programmed and evangelical bodies to unprogrammed meetings whose worship is mainly silent, and the entry recorded here describes the Society as a whole. Placing these churches together lets a reader compare one church family at a time and follow how each body describes its own governance, worship and history. Each entry keeps its own description, sources and Browse By pages.