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Mount Judah Cemetery: Queens: Ridgewood: 1908 No Yes: Mount Lebanon Cemetery: Queens: Glendale: 1914 No Yes: Mount Neboh Cemetery: Queens: Glendale: 1886 No — [12] Mount Richmond Cemetery: Staten Island: Richmondtown: 1909 No Yes [13] Mount Zion Cemetery: Queens: Maspeth: 1893 No Yes: Salem Fields Cemetery: Brooklyn: Cypress Hills: 1852 1900 ...
It is located in the city's Cemetery Belt, bisected by the border between Brooklyn and Queens. It is a rural cemetery in style, and was started in 1851 by three Manhattan Jewish congregations: Congregation Shearith Israel (Spanish Portuguese) on West 70th Street, B'nai Jeshurun on West 89th Street, and Temple Shaaray Tefila on East 79th Street.
Mount Richmond Cemetery was established in 1909, in response to the need for more graves for New York's indigent Jewish community. Currently, the Hebrew Free Burial Association buries approximately 400 Jews a year, and nearly 60,000 Jews have been buried since Mt. Richmond's inception.
Washington Cemetery is a historical and predominantly Jewish burial ground located at 5400 Bay Parkway in Mapleton, Brooklyn, New York, United States. Founded in Kings County in 1850, outside the independent city of Brooklyn, [ 1 ] it became a Jewish burial ground as early as 1857, at first serving primarily German Jewish immigrants.
First Shearith Israel Graveyard, also known as Chatham Square Cemetery, is a tiny Jewish graveyard at 55-57 St. James Place in the Two Bridges neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. It is the oldest of three Manhattan graveyards currently maintained by Congregation Shearith Israel ( Hebrew , "Remnant of Israel"), which is itself the ...
Salem Fields Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located at 775 Jamaica Avenue in the Cypress Hills neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, United States, within the Cemetery Belt. It was founded in 1852 by Congregation Emanu-El of New York. Salem Fields is the final resting place for many of the prominent German-Jewish families of New York City.
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Print/export Download as PDF ... Help. Pages in category "Jewish cemeteries in New York City" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total ...