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Mount Carmel Cemetery (Queens)

Coordinates: 40°41′57″N 73°53′22″W / 40.6991692°N 73.8893293°W / 40.6991692; -73.8893293
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Mount Carmel Cemetery

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

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

History

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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

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References

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  1. ^ Howard Kramer. "The Complete Pilgrim, Religious Travel Site".
  2. ^ ex. www.MountHebronCemetery.com/search.asp
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40°41′57″N 73°53′22″W / 40.6991692°N 73.8893293°W / 40.6991692; -73.8893293