Dundee Quaker Meeting
Meeting Place: 7 Whitehall Crescent, Dundee DD1 4AR (1 stair up)
Meeting for Worship: Sunday at 11.00am:
Children's Meeting: Sunday at 11.00am (but phone 01382 225 213)
Dundee Meeting HouseVisitors are welcome. Afterwards we have coffee/tea and biscuits and time to chat. Children are warmly welcome; the children's meeting is at the same time as the main meeting, which they join for the last ten minutes.
Dundee Meeting House is on the north side of Whitehall Crescent in Dundee City centre and is easily recognised by the distinctive lettering, "Meeting House", carved in the stonework lintel above the ground-floor offices presently occupied by a solicitors' property centre.
Originally the intention was that all four floors and attics should be used as: "a Friend's Institute, with meeting house, reading room, library and class rooms or recreation rooms on the ground and first floors. The second and third floors and attics are to be let in the meantime. ....(1891)"
This ambitious Victorian scheme has never been realised and for a period in the 1920's and 30's the whole building had to be let in order to relieve a dire financial situation. It was only in 1943 that the Property Trust was able to clear the original debt incurred on the building.
At present the Meeting Room, Library /coffee room and kitchen occupy the first floor and there is a children's room on the third floor. The rest of the building is let. Access to the Meeting Room and library/coffee room is from the street via a steep flight of stairs with a halfway landing and there is no lift.
The Meeting House is also used during the week by other groups whose activities and principles are compatible with those of the Society of Friends, such as: Amnesty International, Transcendental Meditation, the Beekeepers, the Tree Group, Dundee Green Party, Friends of the Earth, Churches Together, Save the Children, and individual Quakers at times use the building for special purposes. (Contact: info@dundeequakers.org)
You can find out more about our meeting via our own website at www.dundeequakers.org
Directions to the Meeting House:-
FROM TRAIN STATION: follow signs to City Centre, crossing the road by the pedestrian crossing; cross the end of Union Street to reach Whitehall Crescent. Keep to left-hand (north side of) pavement, cross Whitehall Street, then Meeting House is on your left, its entrance at the far side of Tayside Solicitors Property Centre.
FROM BUS STATION: follow signs for City Centre, along Seagate and High Street, past City Square on left, then first left (Crichton Street). This road meets Whitehall Crescent at the bottom; turn right and Meeting House is second door on right.
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