Did you know that Clissold House was built for Quakers? That William Allen, antislavery campaigner and chemist, lived in Church Street. That Nahneebahweequay, an Ojibway from Canada, stayed with Stoke Newington Quakers when she came to petition Queen Victoria about land rights? That Joseph Beck, one of the people who saved Clissold Park, was a Quaker? In the early 19th century many of the city Quakers came to live in Stoke Newington, and they built a meeting house in 1827 in Park Street now Yoakley Road. The migration of City of London Quakers continued and Stoke Newington became the largest concentration of Quakers in London. By 1900, when membership was starting to go down, there were still 221 living within a mile of the meeting house. During the 20th century, and especially after the second world war, the meeting declined. Quakers moved further out to the suburbs, and the large meeting house was demolished, replaced by a new building in 1959. But the membership was not enough to continue the meeting, and the building was sold in 1966. Now, there are more Quakers in the area again, and a new meeting for worship was established in 2000.

Address: 35 Benthal Road, London N16 7AR
Telephone: 020 8806 6121
Website: http://www.stokenewingtonquakers.org.uk/