Machpelah Cemetery
Machpelah Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located within the Cemetery Belt in Glendale, Queens, in New York City. It was established around 1855. In addition to managing the 6-acre cemetery, the former Machpelah Cemetery Association also managed the adjacent Union Field Cemetery, New Union Field Cemetery and Hungarian Union Field Cemetery.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ridgewood Reservoir and Highland Park.
Ridgewood Reservoir
Reservoir
Ridgewood Reservoir is a decommissioned 19th century reservoir and freshwater wetland on the border between the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, within what is now Highland Park.
Highland Park
Park
Highland Park is a park located in Brooklyn, New York City, on the border with Queens. Established in 1901, Highland Park borders Cypress Hills, Brooklyn—part of the East New York neighborhood—to its south, and it abuts Glendale and Ridgewood, Queens, to its north.
Cypress Hills National Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: K72ndst, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cypress Hills National Cemetery is a 18.2-acre cemetery located in the Cypress Hills neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. It is the only United States National Cemetery in New York City and has more than 21,100 interments of veterans and civilians. Cypress Hills National Cemetery is situated 2,600 feet southeast of Machpelah Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glendale and Fresh Pond Junction.
Glendale
Neighborhood
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Glendale is a neighborhood in the west-central portion of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bounded by Forest Hills to the east, Ridgewood to the west, Woodhaven to the south, and Middle Village to the north.
Fresh Pond Junction
Neighborhood
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
Fresh Pond Junction is a freight yard in the Ridgewood and Glendale neighborhoods of Queens in New York City. It is operated by the New York & Atlantic Railway, which serves Long Island using tracks owned by the Long Island Rail Road.
Cypress Hills
Neighborhood
East New York is a residential neighborhood in the eastern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are roughly the Cemetery Belt and the Queens borough line to the north; the Queens…
Machpelah Cemetery
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: Jewish cemetery in Glendale, Queens, New York
- Categories: Jewish cemetery and burial
- Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.69387° or 40° 41′ 38″ northLongitude
-73.88634° or 73° 53′ 11″ westElevation
148 feet (45 metres)Open location code
87G8M4V7+GFOpenStreetMap ID
way 247959243OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemetery
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Machpelah Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “cementiri de Machpelah”
- Esperanto: “juda tombejo Machpelah”
- Hebrew: “בית הקברות מכפלה”
- Swedish: “Machpelah 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 “Machpelah Cemetery”. Photo: Anthony22, CC BY-SA 3.0.