meeting house
noun
1.
a house or building for religious worship.
2.
a house of worship for Quakers.
Also,
meetinghouse
.
Origin
1625-35
Examples from the web for
meeting house
The
meeting house
form church is a one-story, weatherboarded, frame church with an apsidal plan and a narthex pavilion.
The church, a local interpretation of a colonial
meeting house
, is set on the second level of a hill near a spring.
British Dictionary definitions for
meeting house
meeting house
noun
1.
the place in which certain religious groups, esp Quakers, hold their meetings for worship
2.
(
NZ
)
Also called
wharepuni.
a large Māori tribal hall