Mount_Carmel_Cemetery_(Queens,_New_York)

Mount Carmel Cemetery (Queens)

Mount Carmel Cemetery (Queens)

Cemetery in Queens, New York City, US

Mount Carmel Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located within the Cemetery Belt in Queens, New York City that opened in 1906.

Mount Carmel Cemetery

The main section is in Glendale, Queens, and has more than 85,000 occupied plots. A new section was opened in nearby Ridgewood.

History

The Rural Cemetery Act, a New York City ban on new Manhattan cemeteries effective 1850, led to the opening of new ones in Brooklyn and Queens areas that form an area collectively called Cemetery Belt.[1]

Over a dozen major Jewish cemeteries opened. Some of these[2] have web sites that allow searching for buried friends and relatives.

Famous burials

References

  1. [1]
    Howard Kramer. "The Complete Pilgrim, Religious Travel Site".
  2. [2]
    ex. www.MountHebronCemetery.com/search.asp

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