Mid-India Yearly Meeting
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Mid-India Yearly Meeting | |
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Classification | Quaker |
Associations | Friends World Committee for Consultation |
Region | Madhya Pradesh , India |
Origin |
Hoshangabad , India |
Branched from | London Yearly Meeting |
Congregations | 6 |
Primary schools | 4 |
Mid-India Yearly Meeting is a yearly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Madhya Pradesh state in mid- India . [1] Quakerism came to mid-India as a result of missionaries from London Yearly Meeting who were members of the Friends Foreign Mission Association . [2] Missions were established in Mid-India in 1866 by the Friends Foreign Mission Association . [3] Mid-India Yearly Meeting was founded as an independent yearly meeting in 1907 in Hoshangabad . [4]
There are six monthly meetings in Mid-India Yearly Meeting: Hoshangabad Friends Meeting, Itarsi Friends Meeting, Kheda Friends Meeting (also in Itarsi), Sohagpur Friends Meeting, Seoni Malwa Friends Meeting and Makoriya Friends Meeting. [4] There are three schools in Itarsi which were founded and still run by Friends, but which now belong to the Indian government. [4] There is also the Sohugpur Friends' Girls' School which was founded by Friends and continues to be run by Mid-India Yearly Meeting Friends. [4]
In 2002, Mid-India Yearly Meeting published a Hindi language version of Britain Yearly Meeting 's Advices and Queries, the part of British Quaker Faith and Practice . [5]
It is affiliated to Friends World Committee for Consultation . [1] [6]
References
- 1 2 Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) (April 2009). "List of Meetings" . Archived from the original on 2009-07-08 . Retrieved 2009-07-17 .
- ↑ Mundus. "Library of the Religious Society of Friends" . Retrieved 2009-07-17 .
- ↑ Haberman, Frederick (1972). Nobel Lectures, Peace, 1926-1950 . Nobel Lectures. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier.
- 1 2 3 4 Arnett, Mary. "Brief History of Friends in India" . Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Archived from the original on 2015-10-20 . Retrieved 2016-01-21 .
- ↑ Gregory, Linley (2004). "Asia - West Pacific Section". Trustees' Report 2003 (PDF) . Friends' World Committee for Consultation. p. 10.
- ↑ Friends World Committee for Consultation Asia and West Pacific Section. "FWCC Asia and West Pacific Section Affiliated Yearly Meetings and Groups" . Friends World Committee for Consultation. Archived from the original on 2009-07-08 . Retrieved 2009-07-17 .
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