Historic Englewood church destroyed by fire

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Members of a historic church destroyed by fire on Tuesday night vowed to hold their Easter services on Sunday.

"We don't know where we will hold Easter, but organizations in the community have reached out, for which we are grateful," wrote the church on its Facebook page hours after flames shot out of the roof of the 152-year-old church on East Palisade Avenue. According to the post, no one was in the building at the time.

"The Easter message of Resurrection should have special meaning for us this year," read a message on the church website.

The Rev. Richard Hong wrote that the most important part of the church is the people and not the building.

"I feel for the people who were baptized here, who were married here, whose parents had their funerals here to see that destroyed is not an easy thing to watch, but the congregation is people, so as long as the people are fine the church is fine," Hong told ABC 7.

The Daily Voice of Englewood reported the church was home to to the largest pipe organ in Bergen County.