Beth Olam Cemetery

Beth Olam Cemetery
Location 2 Cypress Hills St., Brooklyn, New York
Coordinates 40°41′26″N 73°52′48″W / 40.69056°N 73.88000°W / 40.69056; -73.88000Coordinates: 40°41′26″N 73°52′48″W / 40.69056°N 73.88000°W / 40.69056; -73.88000
Area 12.37 acres (5.01 ha)
Built 1851
NRHP reference # 16000254[1]
Added to NRHP May 16, 2016

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

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

  1. ↑ 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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