Mid-India Yearly Meeting
| Mid-India Yearly Meeting | |
|---|---|
| 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". 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. 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. Retrieved 2009-07-17.