THE MEETING
Stoke Newington Quaker meeting started in its present form in June 2000.
We are a small Meeting, with between 6 and 12 worshippers at Meeting for Worship.
The hall has had a recent facelift. The ceiling has some magnificent cast iron girders. And on suitable days the sunlight coming through the skylights can be quite lovely.
Though centrally heated, in the winter it can get chilly, so we bring an extra garment. In the summer it can get pretty warm.
You will see it is not entirely ideal. Hot or cold, however, we would love to see you!
Until June 2007 the Area Meeting was part of the larger regional grouping of London and Middlesex General Meeting. This has now been abolished, but much of its work has been taken up by a new body, London Quakers. See their new website!
All Quakers in the UK are part of Britain Yearly Meeting.
We worship together in a large community hall, which is used by a variety of local groups during the week, including, in winter, a good once-weekly homeless shelter run by the local Anglicans, which a number of us have supported.
Stoke Newington Meeting is a part of North London Area Quaker Meeting, until very recently known by its historical name of Devonshire House and Tottenham Monthly Meeting, a geographical grouping of 5 Quaker Meetings, which runs from the City of London outwards to London's northernmost suburbs. The other four meetings are at Bunhill Fields, New Barnet, Tottenham and Winchmore Hill.
Quaker meetinghouses in London are owned by Six Weeks Meeting. They also ultimately pay for the rental of the hall where we worship. How they operate can sometimes seem a mystery. It may help to read some of their Newsletters - click here. The current (November 2006) one shows what our Monthly Meeting pays each year and how it is made up.
Also click here to see some Quaker proposals for the problem of Climate Change.
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