Beth Olam Cemetery
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| Location | 2 Cypress Hills St., Brooklyn, New York |
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| 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[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 16, 2016 |
The Beth Olam Cemetery, in Cypress Hills on the border of Brooklyn and Queens 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.
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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