Downingtown Friends Meeting

The Downingtown Friends meeting started out in Lionville as Uwchlan Monthly Meeting in 1712, first meeting in member’s home and finally building a stone meeting house in 1756 (see Uwchlan Meetinghouse). In 1784, members living in Downingtown asked to be able to meet in the schoolhouse there. By 1802, an indulged meeting was set up in Downingtown. By 1907, lack of attendance caused the original Uwchlan meeting to be laid down. The Downingtown meeting became the modern Uwchlan Meeting, though it is commonly known as Downingtown.

A cemetery lies behind the meetinghouse.

800 E. Lancaster Ave., Downingtown, PA
610-269-4223
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