Portadown Meeting closes

Portadown Meeting has closed after more than a century

by Tara Craig 7th November 2014

A Northern Ireland Meeting has closed after more than a century. Friends held their last Meeting in the Portadown Meeting house on 26 October.

The Meeting house, in County Armagh opened in 1905,  and was paid for by a fundraising drive that raised £1,000. Although some fifty people belong to the Meeting, attendance had been declining for several years. Younger people have moved away to study, while mobility problems have prevented older Friends from attending Meeting.