Chestnut Ridge, a neighbor of Upper Saddle River, is an interesting place with occasional weird and questionable occurrences. Homes being used as houses of worship that gridlock streets and turn them into parking lots. Daily. Single family homes bursting with people, who live in closets and basements, and every other room and space.
Something new now.
Recent reports following town meetings have resulted in head scratching by many over a question of allowing people to be buried on private property. Residents and others were left wondering exactly what was going on.
The answer is out. A mosque in Chestnut Ridge buried their imam after his death a year ago in the place he loved so much. Now graced with a granite monument and bench many are left asking questions and the town left scrambling to fix a gap in their ordinances.
While not necessarily illegal
Such interments are safe, and not uncommon in others parts of the country,
from Funeral Consumers Alliance.
In communities with dense populations, and possible wells, the safety is questionable despite what the Funeral Consumers Alliance states. After all this isn’t Wyoming.