{"id":182,"date":"2019-10-26T17:35:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T21:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.mekshq.com\/voice\/?p=182"},"modified":"2019-11-15T16:43:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T21:43:42","slug":"friends-meeting-house-flushing-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/friends-meeting-house-flushing-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Flushing Meeting (Friends Meeting House)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At first glance, the Flushing Meeting seems like a rustic old house. But it&#8217;s by design and for good reason: It&#8217;s the oldest site with continuous religious services in New York. Its eastern part was built in 1694 and the rest of of the building was added in 1719.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the congregation predates the building (and was responsible for the groundbreaking Flushing Remonstrance, which first established freedom of worship in the New Amsterdam colony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/friendsmeetinghouseflushing-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/friendsmeetinghouseflushing-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/friendsmeetinghouseflushing-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/friendsmeetinghouseflushing-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/friendsmeetinghouseflushing-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/friendsmeetinghouseflushing-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/friendsmeetinghouseflushing-570x380.jpg 570w, https:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/friendsmeetinghouseflushing-740x493.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Flushing Meeting house driveway from Northern Boulevard.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The wood frame building is quite unassuming, and so is the interior. The extensive backyard houses a burial site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest place of worship in the city and New York state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[68,69,67,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nychurchproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}