Editing Glen Rock, New Jersey (section)

==Culture==
[[File:HENDRIK HOPPER HOUSE, GLEN ROCK, BERGEN COUNTY.jpg|thumb|[[Hendrick Hopper House]], a historic home on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] located on Ackerman Avenue in Glen Rock]]
The [[Hendrick Hopper House]] is a historic building located on the corner of Ackerman and Hillman Avenues. The site was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1983 as site #83001526.<ref>[https://www.nj.gov/dep/hpo/1identify/nrsr_lists/BERGEN.pdf New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places: Bergen County], [[New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection]] Historic Preservation Office, updated March 30, 2023. Accessed April 30, 2023.</ref>

Glen Rock is home to an architecturally prominent [[Sikh]] [[gurudwara]].<ref>[http://glenrockgurudwara.org/home/?page_id=2 About], Glen Rock Gurudwara. Accessed August 29, 2017.</ref> As much as 90% of the borough's [[Indian American]] constituency was estimated by one member in 2014 to have moved to Glen Rock within the preceding two-year period alone.<ref>De Santa, Richard. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035458/http://www.northjersey.com/community-news/community-events-and-announcements/glen-rock-residents-seek-diwali-observance-at-district-schools-1.1144470 "Glen Rock residents seek Diwali observance at district schools"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', December 1, 2014, backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of March 4, 2016. Accessed August 29, 2017. "Members of Glen Rock's Indian population have asked district officials to designate the observance of Diwali as a formal school holiday next year.... Thohan had estimated earlier that some 90 percent of that constituency has moved to the borough over the past two years."</ref> In February 2015, the Glen Rock Board of Education voted to designate the [[Hinduism|Hindu]] holy day [[Diwali]] as an annual school holiday, making it the county's first district to do so.<ref>Harris, Chris. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150224221006/http://www.northjersey.com/news/glen-rock-schools-to-close-for-diwali-1.1276918 "Glen Rock schools to close for Diwali"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', February 24, 2015. Accessed August 29, 2017. "Schools in the borough will be closed on Nov. 11, since the Board of Education voted to add Diwali, a Hindu holy day, to the district’s calendar. District officials claim Glen Rock, which has a burgeoning Indian community, is the first district in Bergen County to formally recognize Diwali with an instruction-free day."</ref>

The Jewish community is centered around the Glen Rock Jewish Center which offers prayer services and Jewish education.<ref>[https://www.grjc.org/about-us About Us], Glen Rock Jewish Center.</ref>