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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 is a historic cemetery in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, New York, United States. It is located in the city's Cemetery Belt, bisected by the border between Brooklyn and Queens.
It is a rural cemetery in style, and was started in 1851 by three Manhattan Jewish congregations: Congregation Shearith Israel (Spanish Portuguese) on West 70th Street, B'nai Jeshurun on West 89th Street, and Temple Shaaray Tefila on East 79th 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, and also designed its gates. It is the only religious building that Vaux, the co-designer of Central Park, is known to have designed.[2] Many mausoleum windows are made with Tiffany stained glass and LaFarge bronze doors.[3]
The burial ground contains many examples of architecture and funerary art.[4]
- ^ "Beth Olam Cemetery". National Park Service. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
- ^ "Cemeteries". Congregation Shearith Israel. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- ^ "Beth Olam Cemetery". Billion Graves. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
- ^ 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.