Live Oak Friends Meeting House

Live Oak Friends Meeting House is a meeting house located in the Heights area of Houston, Texas, United States. It features a permanent installation by the Quaker artist James Turrell known as the skyspace.[1][2][3][4]

Live Oak Friends Meeting (commonly abbreviated LOFM) is a monthly meeting (congregation) of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Houston, Texas.[5] The Meeting was founded in 1954. [6]

The Meeting is a member of Bayou Quarterly Meeting and South Central Yearly Meeting. It is a Liberal Quaker meeting and is associated with Friends General Conference. The meeting worships in the traditional unprogrammed style.

References

  1. ↑ "James Turrell: "Live Oak Friends Meeting House" | ART21". www.art21.org. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
  2. ↑ BRITT, DOUGLAS. "Illuminating the spirit in Quaker meeting space". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
  3. ↑ Glentzer, Molly. "In Houston, the sky space is the limit". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
  4. ↑ Lefaivre, Liane; Tzonis, Alexander (2011). Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization. Routledge. pp. 186–187. ISBN 9780415575782. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
  5. ↑ HAMILTON, WILLIAM L. "Quaker Simple, Simply Beautiful". New York Times. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
  6. ↑ "Welcome! | Live Oak Friends Meeting". friendshouston.org. Retrieved 2015-11-02.

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