Monmouth Torah Links, 70 Amboy Ave, Ste 101, Woodbridge, NJ 07095, US

Organizing a church was a high priority to Hungarian immigrants in Woodbridge at the turn of the 20th century. The Hungarian Reformed Church, at the corner of James and School Streets, was founded in 1907 to serve the needs of the immigrants and their families to worship in their native tongue. While a parsonage was added in 1940, the original wooden church needed to be replaced. That happened in 1961, when a gracious brick church was erected on the original church site. Over the years, a dwindling Hungarian population has caused churches to close or merge. That happened last year when the John Calvin Magyar Reformed Church in Perth Amboy, with only two dozen congregants, was put up for sale. Rev. Stefan Torok, who pastored the Perth Amboy church, now leads his flock in the Woodbridge church.