Quaker Meeting Houses: Hobart, Tasmania.

Abstract

Photograph titled First Friends' Meeting House: The first Quaker Meeting House in Hobart. A cottage at 39 Murray Street which was bought by James Backhouse in 1837 with a loan from Meeting for Sufferings, London. The cost was 400 pounds including alterations (held by University of Tasmania Libary, Special and Rare Collections). Photograph titled Second Friends' Meeting House 1880-1860: In 1880 a stone Meeting House was built behind the old weatherboard house which can be seen under construction behind first Meeting House in the photograph (held by Univeristy of Tasmania Libary, Special and Rare Collections). Photograph titled Second Friends' Meeting House 1880-1860 (Modern View) (held by Univeristy of Tasmania Libary, Special and Rare Collections). Photograph titled Third Friends' Meeting House 1960+: It is located in Boa Vista Road, New Town, Tasmania (held by Univeristy of Tasmania Libary, Special and Rare Collections). Photograph titled Door latch and handle of the first Meeting House 1837-1880: This was so that Friends could enter for silent worship at any time, the lock was removed and this latch substituted (held by the Society of Friends' Meeting House Collection.) Notes Source: Michael Bennett, Quaker Life in Tasmania: The First Hundred Years, University of Tasmania Library, 2007, p.29.