The June 1910 issue of the Ramallah Messenger, the mission publication of New England Yearly Meeting, describes the Meetinghouse lot as “…situated half way between the Mission Home and the new grounds purchased for the Boys’ School. It occupies a commanding position on the rocky ridge that forms the water shed between the Mediterranean and the Dead Seas…From 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
n City of Gaza…The 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.”
