Mount Olivet Cemetery (Newark)

Mount Olivet Cemetery
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Location Newark, New Jersey
Country United States
Coordinates 40°41′24″N 74°11′49″W / 40.690°N 74.197°W / 40.690; -74.197Coordinates: 40°41′24″N 74°11′49″W / 40.690°N 74.197°W / 40.690; -74.197

Mount Olivet Cemetery is a cemetery in the Dayton section of Newark in the U.S. state of New Jersey founded in 1871.[1] It is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

Mount Olivet, or Mount of Olives, (Hebrew: הַר הַזֵּיתִים, Har ha-Zeitim; Arabic: جبل الزيتون, الطور, Jabal al-Zaytun, Al-Tur) is a mountain ridge east of and adjacent to Jerusalem's Old City.[2]

The Newark City Cemetery is located nearby.

Notable burials

References

  1. "Newark Cemeteries". newarkcemeteries.com. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  2. Har-El, Menashe (1977). This is Jerusalem. Jerusalem: Canaan Publishing House. p. 117.
  3. John Thomas Dunn, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed August 23, 2007.
  4. Charles P. Gillen, The Political Graveyard. Accessed August 23, 2007.
  • Mt. Olivet Cemetery at The Political Graveyard
  • Mount Olivet Cemetery at Find A Grave
  • "Mt. Olivet R.C. Cemetery: Newark, NJ". lithuaniangenealogy.org. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
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