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	Beth Olam Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	2 Cypress Hills St., Brooklyn, New York
Coordinates	40°41′26″N 73°52′48″W / 40.69056°N 73.88000°W
Area	12.37 acres (5.01 ha)
Built	1851
NRHP reference No.	16000254
Added to NRHP	May 16, 2016

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The Beth Olam Cemetery, in Cypress Hills is bisected by the border between Brooklyn / Kings County and Queens / Queens County in New York City, is a historic cemetery.

It is a rural cemetery in style, and was started in 1851 by three Manhattan Jewish congregations in the city: Shearith Israel (Spanish Portuguese) on West 70th Street, B'nai Jeshrun, on West 89 Street and Shaaray Tefilah on East 79 Street. In 1882, Calvert Vaux was commissioned to design a small, red brick Metaher house or place of purification and pre-burial eulogies, near the entrance to the Shearith Israel section. This is the only religious building that Vaux, the co-designer of Central Park is known to have designed.

The burial ground contains many examples of architecture and funerary art.^[2]

References

^ "Beth Olam Cemetery". National Park Service. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
^ Marena Wisniewski; Jennifer Betsworth (January 2016). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Beth Olam Cemetery / The Fourth Spanish and Portuguese Cemetery (with 32 photos from 2015)" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved June 27, 2018.

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[featured-1] "Beth Olam Cemetery". National Park Service. Retrieved June 27, 2018.

[nrhpdoc-2] Marena Wisniewski; Jennifer Betsworth (January 2016). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Beth Olam Cemetery / The Fourth Spanish and Portuguese Cemetery (with 32 photos from 2015)" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved June 27, 2018.

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-The '''Beth Olam Cemetery''', in [[Cypress Hills, Brooklyn|Cypress Hills]] on the border of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City, is a historic cemetery.
+The '''Beth Olam Cemetery''', in [[Cypress Hills, Brooklyn|Cypress Hills]] is bisected by the border between [[Brooklyn]] / Kings County and [[Queens]] / Queens County in New York City, is a historic cemetery.
-It is a [[rural cemetery]] in style, and was started in 1851 by three Manhattan Jewish congregations in the city: Shearith Israel (Spanish Portuguese) on West 70th Street, B'nai Jeshrun, on West 89 Street and Shaaray Tefilah on East 79 Street. In 1882, [[Calvert Vaux]] was commissioned to design a small, red brick chapel near the entrance to the Shearith Israel section. The chapel is the only religious building that Vaux, the co-designer of [[Central Park]] is known to have built.
+It is a [[rural cemetery]] in style, and was started in 1851 by three Manhattan Jewish congregations in the city: Shearith Israel (Spanish Portuguese) on West 70th Street, B'nai Jeshrun, on West 89 Street and Shaaray Tefilah on East 79 Street. In 1882, [[Calvert Vaux]] was commissioned to design a small, red brick Metaher house or place of purification and pre-burial eulogies, near the entrance to the Shearith Israel section. This is the only religious building that Vaux, the co-designer of [[Central Park]] is known to have designed.
 The burial ground contains many examples of architecture and [[funerary art]].<ref name="nrhpdoc">{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/pdfs/16000254.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Beth Olam Cemetery / The Fourth Spanish and Portuguese Cemetery (with 32 photos from 2015) |publisher=[[National Park Service]]|author=Marena Wisniewski |author2=Jennifer Betsworth |date=January 2016 |accessdate=June 27, 2018}}</ref>

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