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October 16, 2006

Not a Quaker concept?

Comfort is not a Quaker concept. The rabbi of the Bevis Marks synagogue – the oldest in Britain and one of the best-preserved houses of worship of its period still in use – found himself recently apologising to visitors on the London Open Weekend for the uncomfortable benches. They were built by Quaker joiners, he explained.

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