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City of Boston

Kings Chapel Burying Ground

King's Chapel Burying Ground is a historic graveyard on Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts, near its intersection with School Street, established in 1630.
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  • Type: Cemetery
  • Description: graveyard in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “King’s Chapel Burial Ground” and “King’s Chapel Burying Ground”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kings Chapel and Old City Hall.

Church
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King's Chapel is an American independent Christian unitarian congregation affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association that is "unitarian Christian in theology, Anglican in worship, and congregational in governance." It is housed in what was for…

Historic building
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is a building at 45 School Street in , , U.S, which housed the Boston City Council from 1865 to 1969. Designed by Gridley James Fox Bryant and Arthur Gilman, it was one of the first buildings in the French Second Empire style to be built in the United States.

Museum
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The , also known as the Old Provincial State House, is a historic building in , . Built in 1713, replacing the city's First Town House, it was the seat of the Massachusetts General Court until 1798. is situated 660 feet east of Kings Chapel Burying Ground.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Boston and Adams Square.

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A city of history and tradition, offers a proud legacy of culture, education, and numerous sporting championships. The "shining city on a hill"s independent spirit has been displayed to the world ever since colonists were angry over a British tax on their beloved tea and dumped shiploads of it into the harbor in protest.

Locality
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was a square in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Now demolished, it was formerly located on the site of the current in .

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Downtown is really the heart of the city. Boston City Hall is here, and many powerful companies and agencies are headquartered in the area. Since urban planning was done here before the advent of the automobile, this area of town has secured a decidedly European flavor.

Kings Chapel Burying Ground

Latitude
42.3583° or 42° 21′ 30″ north
Longitude
-71.05984° or 71° 3′ 35″ west
Elevation
49 feet (15 metres)
Open location code
87JC9W5R+83
Open­Street­Map ID
way 29818712
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­grave_yard
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­cemetery
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­cemetery
Geo­Names ID
4941352
Wiki­data ID
Q1742174
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In Other Languages

From French to Spanish—“Kings Chapel Burying Ground” goes by many names.

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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 “Kings Chapel Burying Ground”. Photo: MamaGeek, CC BY-SA 3.0.