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D.C.”

He said New Hampshire Av-

enue has been referred to as the

“Highway to Heaven.”

The Jain Society of Metropoli-

tan Washington was established

in 1980. It started with 20 mem-

bers and has now grown to over

635, according to its website.

Navin Vora, the society’s facili-

ties d irector, said t he Jain Society

was drawn to Cloverly was be-

cause it offered abundant space.

The society’s founding mem-

bers and a monk “found a nice

place here in Cloverly — large

land the way they needed — and

according to all our religious

things, it was suitable f or them to

do that,” he said. “The main

reason to have [a] temple in

Cloverly is that most of [the]

people were in surrounding ar-

eas and our monk chose this

place.”

Jainism’s motto is “live and let

live,” he said. It is based on the

precepts of nonviolence a nd non-

possessiveness, he wrote.

Sheila Stewart, who’s lived in

Cloverly f or n early 37 years, l oves

that she can see many places of

worship traveling along New

Hampshire Avenue.

“When I was a child, they used

Where We Live Cloverly, Md.

BY KRISTINA ORREGO

Quentin Remein has lived in
Cloverly, an unincorporated area
in Montgomery County north of
Silver Spring, since about 1980.
He has been part of the Cloverly
Civic Association since the
1980s, as well as president for
many of those years, and was
involved in the development of
the Cloverly Master Plan, a docu-
ment published in July 1997.
The document lays out princi-
ples that have helped Cloverly
maintain its bucolic character.
One of these is to retain low-den-
sity residential zoning of most
underdeveloped property.
Remein said this ensures that
Cloverly will stay a “low-density
community with a rural charac-
ter.”
The community has “been de-
veloped pretty much as p lanned,”
he said.
When the Washington Subur-
ban Sanitary Commission decid-
ed to sell the land in Cloverly it
had been using as a sludge
disposal site, the residents made
sure it was developed in keeping
with the master plan.
“The first thing that came to
their mind was to develop it as a
commercial site for businesses,”
Remein said. “It’s a large tract of
property and we discouraged
that activity and we encouraged
the activity of it being built as a
residential community sur-
rounding a golf course.”
It eventually became Hamp-
shire Greens, with construction
starting in 1995. Residents began
moving into the neighborhood i n
1997.
Cloverly is home to many
places of worship representing a
variety of faiths — such as the
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community,
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic
Parish and the Jain Society of
Metropolitan Washington. There
are 32 places of worship, accord-
ing to county officials.
Will Albright, pastor of Christ
Fellowship Church, said his con-
gregation has worshipers from
many ethnicities. He said Clover-
ly’s proximity to the District is
one reason he believes people

from different backgrounds

come to worship there.

“D.C. is not just a hub of the

nation,” Albright said. “It’s a hub

of the world, and it has a draw

and an appeal to diverse back-

grounds and people from all

walks of life.... There’s only so

much room. And at some point,

you have to spread out. And I

think you see that all around

to say that if you don’t go to

church, it is your fault because

you can find congregation/de-

nomination along New Hamp-

shire Ave.,” s he said via email.

Living there: Cloverly is

roughly bounded on the north by

Ednor Road, the Rocky Gorge

Reservoir and the Patuxent Riv-

er, on the east by the Lower

Patuxent River and Upper Paint

Branch stream, on the south by

the Intercounty Connector, and

on t he west by Northwest Branch

Regional Park, Layhill Road and

Ednor Road.

Debbie Cook, a real estate

agent with Long & Foster in the

greater Silver Spring office, said

Cloverly is characterized by big

lots and a semirural character.

“Your neighbor’s not going to

be real close to you,” she said.

“You’re going t o have a big lot — a

minimum of half an acre.”

There were 46 single-family

homes sold in 2018. The average

sales price in 2018 was $494,631.

The lowest-priced home had

three bedrooms and two bath-

rooms and sold for $283,000.

The highest-priced home had

seven bedrooms and six bath-

rooms and sold for $799,000.

Twenty-six homes have sold in

2019, including a three-bedroom,

two-bathroom home for

$340,250 and a four-bedroom,

four-bathroom home for

$550,000. The average sales

price in 2019 is $448,000.

There are eight houses on the

market, ranging in price from a

three-bedroom, three-bathroom

home for $419,000 to a four-bed-

room, one-bathroom home for

$620,000.

Transportation: The nearest

Metro station to Cloverly is the

Glenmont station, which is about

five miles away. Major roads are

New Hampshire Avenue, Mary-

land Route 198 and the Inter-

county Connector. T he Z2 Metro-

bus serves Cloverly.

Schools: Cloverly Elementary;

Briggs Chaney Middle; and Paint

Branch, James Hubert Blake and

Springbrook high schools.

Crime: According to the

Montgomery County crime data-

base, there were six assaults, f our

burglaries and 14 thefts in the

area in 2018.

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Room to

breathe,

room to

worship

North of Silver Spring,

an area keeps the faith

and its rural character

PHOTOS BY BILL O'LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: St. Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral, the Islamic Society of the Washington Area and the Living Word

International Christian Church’s roadside Prayer Stop are among many places of worship; for a place to play, there is Cloverly Park.

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