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Kehilat Kesher
Kehilat Kesher is an Orthodox synagogue in Englewood. Residents from both Englewood and Tenafly attend service. The synagogue was founded in 2000. Starting in 2010, Rabbi Akiva Block has served the synagogue.Tags Religion -
St. Cecilia Interparochial School
St. Cecilia Interparochial School was an elementary school associated with the St. Cecilia Roman Catholic Church in Englewood. It closed in 2011 or 2012. -
St. Cecilia High School
St. Cecilia High School was a catholic school connected to the St. Cecilia Church in Englewood. Most famously, Vincent Lombardi worked at the school as an athletic coach and led football and basketball teams to national championships. It closed in 1986. -
Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
The Women's Christian Temperance Union founded in 1874 is an organization dedicated to the Temperance Movement. It became one of the largest and most influential women's groups during this era. The organization focused on labor laws, prison reform, women's suffrage, public health, prostitution, international peace, and domestic violence. The organization began heavily focusing on supporting the 18th Amendment and alcohol prohibition during the early 1900s. The first presidents were Annie Wittenmyer and Frances Willard. -
Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)
The first Young Women's Christian Association was created in 1855 in England. Mary Jane Kinnaird founded the North London Home for nurses who traveled during the Crimean War. It combined with Emma Robarts Prayer Union in 1877 to form the YWCA.
The YWCA of the United States was founded in 1858. It is a nonprofit organization founded in the 1850s dedicated to empowering and supporting women. Current programs fight for racial equality, sexual violence support, health care, and child care. There are also efforts to provide education and job opportunities -
Young Women's Christian Association, Northern New Jersey Branch
The YWCA of Ridgewood and Hackensack was founded in the 1920s in relation to the YWCA of the United States. They combined in the 1990s to form the YWCA Bergen County. In the 2010s, the institution expanded to serve women in Passaic, Bergen, Morris, Essex, and Hudson counties. -
First Baptist Church of Englewood
The First Baptist Church of Englewood was created in 1893. As more partitioners attended, the church moved to 61 William Street. The current church building was completed and opened on September 18, 1966.
According to the Church, Dr. J. Isaiah Goodman was one of the first pastors who had the church join the Progressive National Baptist Convention (PNCB) and supported the efforts of the Civil Rights Movement. Goodman's Successor, John H. Spencer established a relationship with a church in Nyantanga, Rwanda. The church became the first African-American congregation in the American Baptist Churches of New Jersey (ABCNJ). SonRise House, a transitional home for homeless women and children, was next to the church.Tags Religion -
Ebenezer Baptist Church
The Ebenezer Baptist Church began in 1913 under Reverand Samuel Lightfoot. Reverand W. B. Booker was his successor. Reverand Clarence E. Richardson was the church's third pastor and a new church building was constructed on Fourth Street beginning in 1972. The other three pastors of the church were Reverand William Holt Hargrave, Reverand William Marcus Small, and Reverand Jovan T. Davis.Tags Religion -
St. Cecilia
In 1866, the Catholic Church completed the construction at St.Cecilia’s Church after Reverand Dr. Henry Brann initiated the building in 1865.
The church opened its doors to the growing Italian and Irish Catholic population in Englewood. Reverand Silverius J. Quigley founded the first Catholic coeducational high school in Bergen County in 1924. St. Cecilia’s elementary, junior high, and high school educated generations of Englewood youth. The high school closed in 1986 and the elementary school closed in 2011 or 2012.
St.Cecilia’s gained national recognition in the 1940s after it hired a young coach named Vince Lombardi, who turned the basketball and football programs into state champions.Tags Religion