Mount Moriah Cemetery
Mount Moriah Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery that spans the border between Southwest Philadelphia and Yeadon, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1855 and is the largest cemetery in Pennsylvania.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Philadelphia
- Also known as: “Mount Moriah Cemetery (Philadelphia)” and “Mt Moriah Cemetery”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Joseph W. Catharine School and Berry Long Memorial Methodist Church.
Joseph W. Catharine School
School
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Joseph W. Catharine School is a historic elementary school located in the Mount Moriah neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia. Joseph W. Catharine School is situated 1,800 feet south of Mount Moriah Cemetery.
Berry Long Memorial Methodist Church
Church
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Berry Long Memorial Methodist Church is situated 2,900 feet northeast of Mount Moriah Cemetery.
St. James Kingsessing
Church
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St. James Kingsessing, commonly called "Old Swedes," is an historic American church located at 68th Street and Woodland Avenue in the Kingsessing neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. St. James Kingsessing is situated 3,700 feet south of Mount Moriah Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Paschall and Kingsessing.
Paschall
Neighborhood
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Elmwood Park, also known simply as Elmwood, is a neighborhood in the Southwest section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It borders the city line with Delaware County at Cobbs Creek, and extends to the Schuylkill River.
Kingsessing
Neighborhood
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Kingsessing is a neighborhood in the Southwest section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. On the west side of the Schuylkill River, it is next to the neighborhoods of Cedar Park and Elmwood Park, as well as the borough of Yeadon in Delaware County.
Angora
Neighborhood
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Angora is a neighborhood in the Southwest section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Although its boundaries are not precise, it is roughly bounded by the Cobbs Creek neighborhood to the north, Cobbs Creek to the west, Kingsessing to the south and east, and Cedar Park to the east.
Mount Moriah Cemetery
- Category: burial
- Location: Borough of Yeadon, Delaware County, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.93186° or 39° 55′ 55″ northLongitude
-75.23753° or 75° 14′ 15″ westElevation
43 feet (13 metres)Open location code
87F6WQJ6+PXOpenStreetMap ID
way 232177130OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemetery
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Mount Moriah Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “摩利亞山公墓”
- German: “Mount Moriah Cemetery (Philadelphia)”
- Hebrew: “בית קברות מאונט מוריה (פילדלפיה)”
- Japanese: “マウント・モライアー墓地”
- Swedish: “Mount Moriah Cemetery”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Moriah Cemetery”. Photo: Smallbones, CC0.