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Linden Hill Jewish Cemetery: Queens: Ridgewood: 1875 No — Machpelah Cemetery: Queens: Ridgewood: 1855 1980 – [7] Maimonides Cemetery: Brooklyn: Cypress Hills: 1853 1900 — Mokom Sholom Cemetery: Queens: Ozone Park: 1864 No — [1] Old Montefiore Cemetery: Queens: Springfield Gardens: 1908 No Yes [8] Mount Carmel Cemetery: Queens: Glendale ...
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.
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.
Pages in category "Jewish cemeteries in New York City" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Mount Hebron Cemetery (New York City)
Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp; Mount Richmond Cemetery, Richmondtown (second cemetery of the Hebrew Free Burial Association; Ocean View Cemetery, Richmondtown; Saint Peter's Cemetery, West New Brighton. Oldest Catholic Cemetery on Staten Island, dating from 1848. Silver Lake Cemetery, Silver Lake (first cemetery of the Hebrew Free Burial Association)
Mount Hebron is a Jewish cemetery located in Flushing, Queens, New York, United States. It was founded in 1903 as the Jewish section of Cedar Grove Cemetery, [1] and occupies the vast majority of the grounds at Cedar Grove. [2] The cemetery is on the former Spring Hill estate of colonial governor Cadwallader Colden. Mount Hebron is arranged in ...
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 ...
The 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia states:. It can not be determined when Jews first settled in Baltimore. There were none among the buyers of lots when Baltimore Town was laid out in 1729–30; but as Jews are known to have been resident in Maryland in the middle of the seventeenth century, it is not hazardous to suppose that the quickly growing town attracted some of their descendants early in its ...