Saint George Church
1101 River Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
About Saint George Greek Orthodox Church
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St George Greek Orthodox Church
1101 River Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
(732) 463-1642
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Our Community’s History began in 1916
Our Greek Orthodox Community of New Brunswick - St. George was founded on Sunday, the 15th of October 1916. It was legally incorporated in New Jersey on the 19th of July 1917, and is presently operating under its Constitution of the 6th of April 1924. Our Community was founded to build and maintain our Greek Orthodox Church and our Greek School so that it would educate the children of our Community to speak the language of the Hellenes. Greek was one of the languages that Jesus Christ spoke and with the strength of Greek, His Teachings spread throughout the world. Our Community has founded many organizations that contribute to advancing Hellenic culture, traditions and of course, the Greek Orthodox Christian faith.
Our Community’s major accomplishments are:
- Our first Greek Orthodox Divine Liturgy was held on Sunday, the 15th of October 1916 at a temporary church, in a room above Eagles’ Hall in New Brunswick. Our priests were sent from the Church of Greece.
- The first St. George Greek Orthodox Church and Community Hall were built in 1919 in Highland Park.
- Our Community was one of the first Greek Orthodox Communities of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America. Later, our priests were sent by our Archdiocese.
- The Greek School was established in 1924.
- The Sunday School was established in 1936.
- The second (and present) St. George Greek Orthodox Church, the second Community Center, and the Greek School and Sunday School classrooms were built in 1962 in Piscataway.
- The expansion of the Greek School and the Sunday School, and the Community Center (with the gymnasium which is AHEPA Hall) was finished in 1988.
During our 96-year history, members of our Community have offered much to New Jersey, other states of America, Greece, Cyprus, and to our Greek Orthodox Archdiocese. As a Community, we have talented professionals in the areas of engineering, contracting and construction, restaurants, medicine, theology, business, academia, law, and other professions. Among our past and present members we have had a member of the U. S. Congress, local New Jersey politicians, seven priests, five volunteers to the 2004 Olympics in Athens, and two Archons of our Ecumenical Patriarchate. Members of our Community have fought for Freedom and Democracy in World Wars 1 and 2, and in other wars. Some of our members were wounded, and seven of them were killed and never returned to their families and to our Community.
We can really say that our Community has built, at a high point, its own Acropolis of St. George, with its own Parthenon, a place of worship, the St. George Greek Orthodox Church, and the remaining important Community spaces.