Synopsis

Quakers – also known as The Religious Society of Friends – try to live in truth, peace, simplicity, and equality, finding something of God in everyone including ourselves, in community, and in the natural world. Quakers have roots in Christianity but value the insights of other faiths as well. Meeting together in worship that begins in silence but is open to anyone to speak enables a diversity of beliefs and voices; as such it is central to Quaker spiritual practice.

Quakers in England are grouped into many local Meetings; this book outlines the history of Reading (U.K.) Meeting and its place within the town, and of the Meeting House itself.