meetinghouse

In an 18th-century New England town, who owned the meetinghouse?

Karenstua Café is a meetinghouse in the truest sense of the word.

In the meetinghouse men and women sat apart, listening to the long prayers and sermons, or slowly singing very sober hymns.

I joined them, and thereby was led into the great meetinghouse of the Quakers near the market.

Mr. Baxter was a godly man, but his Deity lived in the meetinghouse and was rarely to be mentioned except within its four walls.

The silent, ghostly figures merged into a compact, motionless mass in front of the meetinghouse.

He posted a number of reliable, cool-headed men around the "meetinghouse," many of them being armed.