Cranbury residents enjoy many different religions. The list below identifies places of worship and cemeteries within and nearby the town of Cranbury.
P.O. Box 584
Cranbury, NJ 08512
(800) 22-UNITE
http://www.us.bahai.org/
Mount Erie Missionary Baptist
Oakwood Terrace and State Street
Monroe, NJ
(732) 521-0954
St. David's Episcopal Church is a successor to Trinity Episcopal Church in Hightstown, which closed in 1957 after one hundred years of operation. As new people moved into the area it became evident that there was a growing number of Episcopaleans whose spiritual needs were not being met. Thus in 1968 St. David's began holding services in the chapel of the Peddie School in Hightstown. In 1982 the present building was erected on six acres of land at the south end of Cranbury. In 1995 improvements and expansions took place, including the addition of a much needed educational wing.
90 South Main Street
Cranbury, NJ 08512
(609) 655-4731
Congregation Beth Chaim
329 Village Road East
West Windsor,
NJ
(609) 799-9401
Beth El Synagogue
50 Maple Stream Road
East Windsor, NJ 08520
(609) 443-4454
www.bethel.net
Beth Zion
Messianic Synagogue
ROVA Farm Resort
Route 571
Jackson, NJ
(732) 370-7703
www.BethZion.org
Congregation Etz Chaim
Monroe Township Jewish Center
11 Cornell
Avenue
Monroe, NJ
(732) 251-1119
www.EtzChaimMTJC.org
Francis Asbury, first Bishop of the Methodist Church, visited Cranberry in 1772 and 1790. In 1845 regular services, held in private homes, became so popular that they were moved to a local schoolroom. The cornerstone of the present United Methodist Church was laid in 1848 and by 1849 the basement meeting room was finished, roofed over and used as a place of worship. In the years 1866-1868 the present sanctuary was built and a bell tower was added. The primitive rose window, destroyed by a hurricane many years previously, was restored in 1977 by four teenage parishioners from a puzzle of frame fragments.
United Methodist Church
21 North Main Street
Cranbury, NJ
08512
(609) 395-0613
In July 1739 James Rochead sold land adjoining the mill property "to be
the use of the Elders and Deacons of the Presbyterian Church." The community
had moved from Old Church in Monroe Township to Cranberry Town where they then
erected the First Presbyterian Church in 1740. In 1759 an additional 150 acres
were purchased for the Parsonage Plantation. A larger church was constructed in
1788 on the site of the present building which was built in 1839 and enlarged
in 1859. The 1878 Parish House has been renovated several times, the latest in
1960.
Church Website
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South Main Street P.O. Box 602
Cranbury, New Jersey 08512
Queenship of Mary RC Church
16 Dey Road
Plainsboro NJ 08536.
Phone 609-799-7511.
Web www.qomchurch.org.
The pastor is Rev. Robert Medley
Nativity of Our Lord
185 Applegarth Road
Monroe, NJ
609-371-0499
The pastor is Rev. Edward Flanagan
Saint James
36 Linden Avenue
Jamesburg, NJ
(732) 521-0100 or
0112
Corner of Route 206 and Cherry Hill Road
Princeton, NJ
(609)
924-1604
Paul Christiansen has kindly donated a vast amount of data related to both the Brainerd and Westminster cemeteries.
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Brainerd Cemetery, adjoining the First Presbyterian Church, consists of 5 acres donated to the church by James Rochead in 1740. 40 graves date before 1800 and 80 Revolutionary War veterans are buried in the cemetery.
The lake and Brainerd Cemetery are named for David Brainerd, missionary to the Indians in the Cranbury area in 1745-46. He was said to have preached in Cranbury under a gigantic elm tree near present-day Bunker Hill.
Westminster Cemetery, burying ground for the Second Presbyterian Church, was opened in 1837 soon after the start of the church. It continues to be the burying ground for many families.
