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The meeting house remains in regular use as a house of worship by the Brooklyn Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. [5] The Brooklyn Friends School moved to another site nearby in 1973. [6] As of 2015, the school building houses Brooklyn Frontiers High School, an alternative school operated by the New York City Department of Education.
Below the sanctuary, the Wesley Chapel Museum displays many artifacts from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American Methodist history. These include church record books, the Wesley Clock (a gift of John Wesley, 1769), love feast cups, class meeting circular benches, the original 1785 altar rail, the original 1767 pulpit made by Philip Embury, and Embury's signed Bible.
Emory Sekaquaptewa (December 28, 1928 – December 14, 2007) was a Hopi leader and scholar from the Third Mesa village of Hotevilla. Known as the "First Hopi" or "First Indian," he is best known for his role in compiling the first dictionary of the Hopi language.
The 2600 van, on display at A New HOPE. The 14th conference, A New Hope, was held at St. John's University in Queens, New York City from 22-24 July 2022. [49] The event was a hybrid event, combining a virtual online event with the in-person event in New York, using Matrix combined with video streaming of the talks.
Lori Ann Piestewa (/ p aɪ ˈ ɛ s t ə w ɑː / py-ES-tə-wah; [2] December 14, 1979 – March 23, 2003) was a United States Army soldier killed during the Iraq War.A member of the Quartermaster Corps, she died in the same Iraqi attack in which fellow soldiers Shoshana Johnson and Piestewa's friend Jessica Lynch were injured.
In 2004, Sekaquaptewa was included in the fifth volume of Notable American Women. [6] In 2013, she was inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame. [1] The chapter, "My Church", in which she describes her interactions with Mormon missionaries and her eventual conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was included in The Columbia Sourcebook of Mormons in the United ...
Construction for the meeting house began in 1909—nearly a decade after the New York Society for Ethical Culture bought the land on Central Park West between 63rd and 64th streets—and was completed in 1910. [2] Originally, the Society had been meeting in Carnegie Hall, but decided to build a meeting house of their own. [2]
The Quaker Meeting-house (1818), Hester and Elizabeth Streets, Manhattan, New York – Built 1818 and recorded in 1876 by the New York Express that it “has for a long time been the office of the New York Gas Light Company.” It was presumed demolished. [10] [11]