{"id":94,"date":"1910-01-01T17:44:45","date_gmt":"1910-01-01T17:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/middle-east-collaborative\/?p=94"},"modified":"2023-03-01T18:23:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T18:23:50","slug":"1910-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/middle-east-collaborative\/1910-2\/","title":{"rendered":"1910: Haverford Meeting and other Philadelphia area Friends contribute funds for the construction of a Meetinghouse in Ramallah."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The June 1910 issue of the <em>Ramallah Messenger<\/em>, the mission publication of New England Yearly Meeting, describes the Meetinghouse lot as &#8220;\u2026situated half way between the Mission Home and the new grounds purchased for the Boys\u2019 School. It occupies a commanding position on the rocky ridge that forms the water shed between the Mediterranean and the Dead Seas\u2026From its elevated position may be seen the far-away mountains of Moab, fertile valleys to the south and a long stretch of the white sands of the beach and the blue waters of the Mediterranean down toward the far-famed Philistia<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/middle-east-collaborative\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/1910\/01\/P-06D-Ramallah-Messenger-Cover-June-1910.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-167 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/middle-east-collaborative\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/1910\/01\/P-06D-Ramallah-Messenger-Cover-June-1910-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/middle-east-collaborative\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/1910\/01\/P-06D-Ramallah-Messenger-Cover-June-1910-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.pym.org\/middle-east-collaborative\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/1910\/01\/P-06D-Ramallah-Messenger-Cover-June-1910.jpg 588w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>n City of Gaza\u2026The house is a plain, substantial structure with a seating capacity for three hundred worshippers. The funds were contributed by Haverford and Philadelphia Friends whose generosity is well known.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/middle-east-collaborative\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/1910\/01\/P-06D-Ramallah-Messenger-June-1910.pdf\">Ramallah Messenger, June 1910<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The June 1910 issue of the Ramallah Messenger, the mission publication of New England Yearly Meeting, describes the Meetinghouse lot as &#8220;\u2026situated half way between the Mission Home and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"featured_media":165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"iawp_total_views":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/middle-east-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/middle-east-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/middle-east-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/middle-east-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/middle-east-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/middle-east-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/middle-east-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/middle-east-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/middle-east-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pym.org\/middle-east-collaborative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}