Synod of Chesapeake, Inc. v. City of Newark

MARVEL, Vice Chancellor.

Plaintiff, a religious corporation of the State of Maryland, serves as the corporate body of the United Presbyterian Church of the states of Delaware and Maryland. It is the owner, inter alia, of premises at 20 Orchard Road in the City of Newark, title thereto having been acquired in 1957 by its predecessor, Westminster Foundation. According to the complaint, such premises, which are known as the Phoenix Center, were thereafter used until 1963 as a place of worship, as an office for the Presbyterian pastor to students of the University of Delaware, and as a place for a…