Editing Cranford, New Jersey (section)

== Places of worship ==
[[File:Temple Beth-El Mekor Chayim in Cranford, NJ.png|thumb|Temple Beth-El Mekor Chayim on Walnut Avenue in Cranford]][[File:Cranford NJ Presby PHS725.jpg|thumb|Cranford's First Presbyterian Church {{circa|1910}}]]
[[File:Christabel Pankhurst, c.1910. (22734753300).jpg|thumb|British [[suffragette]] [[Christabel Pankhurst]], {{circa|1910}}]]
* The [[United Methodist Church|Cranford United Methodist Church]], at the corner of Walnut and Lincoln Avenue, was founded as Cranford's Methodist congregation in the 1850s. It is an LGBTQ-welcoming community, making a "reconciling commitment to intersectional LGBTQ justice." Its brick sanctuary was built in 1954.<ref>Maureen E. Strazdon. Celebrating Cranford pg 24 (2021)</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cranfordumc.com/our-history|title=Our History|website=cranford-umc-nj}}</ref>
*  Temple Beth-El Mekor Chayim, on Walnut Avenue in Cranford, has been a community of worship for more than 100 years, serving the Cranford and Union County area egalitarian-traditional Jewish community.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ginsberg|first=Johanna R.|title=TBEMC: 100 years in the making|url=http://njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com/tbemc-100-years-in-the-making/|access-date=2021-06-11|website=njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com|language=en-US}}</ref>
*  [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Trinity Episcopal Church]] on Forest Avenue was founded in 1872. Its day school offers preschool, kindergarten, and elementary aftercare programs.<ref>{{Cite web|title=ABOUT TRINITY|url=https://www.trinitycranford.org/about-trinity|access-date=2021-06-11|website=trinitycranford|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Presbyterian Church (USA)|First Presbyterian Church of Cranford]] on Springfield Avenue, home to Helen K. Baldwin Nursery School,<ref name=HKB /> was founded in 1850.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History {{!}} First Presbyterian Church of Cranford|url=https://www.firstprescranford.org/about/history/|access-date=2021-06-11|language=en|archive-date=January 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128174647/https://www.firstprescranford.org/about/history/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* The First Baptist Church on High Street was founded in June 1887.<ref>[https://www.nj.com/cranford/2012/06/first_baptist_church_in_cranfo.html "First Baptist Church in Cranford celebrating 125th anniversary"], ''Cranford Chronicle'', June 9, 2012, updated March 30, 2019. Accessed February 15, 2020. "The First Baptist Church, 100 High St. in Cranford is celebrating the 125th Anniversary. The church was founded in June 1887 by Reverend William A. Wallace."</ref> Its former minister, Cranford native [[Deborah Wolfe|Deborah Cannon Partridge Wolfe]], was the first Black woman ordained by the [[American Baptist Church]].
* St. Michael's Church on Alden Street was founded as the township's [[Roman Catholic]] parish in 1872.
* The Cranford [[Alliance World Fellowship|Alliance]] Church that stands at the corner of Cherry and Retford was founded as a Bible study in 1898, and organized as a church under the teachings of [[Albert Benjamin Simpson|Pastor A. B. Simpson]] in 1905. Its permanent location at 7 Cherry Street was dedicated in 1924. British [[suffragette]] [[Christabel Pankhurst]] spoke at the church in 1929.<ref>[http://www.digifind-it.com/cranford/DATA/burditt/subjects/c/2012_06_12_13_22_12.pdf Christian and Missionary Alliance Church]</ref>
*[[Evangelical Lutheran Church in America|Calvary Lutheran Church]] on Eastman Street was founded in the 1920s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://patch.com/new-jersey/cranford/calvary-lutheran-church-works-better-environment|title=Calvary Lutheran Church Works to Better the Environment|date=September 19, 2019|website=Cranford, NJ Patch}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.calvarycranford.com/who-we-are|title=www.calvarycranford.com/about|website=www.calvarycranford.com}}</ref> Its Calvary Nursery School opened in 1993.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.calvarycranford.com/CNSCC|title=CNSCC|website=www.calvarycranford.com}}</ref>