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Zoning Board Hearing On Ukrainian Cultural Center Ends In Chaos

September 19, 2025 Development, Religion, Zoning Board

PROTESTING THE PRELATES – A group of Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA congregants yell at a van carrying two church prelates as it drives away following a Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting on September 18.

Chaos erupted after the September 18 Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting when members of the Ukrainian community chased two top prelates of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of U.S.A. from the municipal building to their van.

The group of between 50 and 75 people yelled “shame” in Ukrainian and English as they followed Metropolitan Antony and Archbishop Daniel out of the Township Council chamber, down the municipal building driveway and into their van.

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