Mount Zion Cemetery
Mount Zion Cemetery is a large Jewish cemetery located in Maspeth, Queens, New York City. The first burial was in 1893, and as of 2015, more than 210,000 individuals had been buried there.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Maspeth, Queens, New York City
- Also known as: “Mount Zion Cemetery (New York City)” and “Mount Zion Cemetery, New York City”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Transfiguration Catholic Church and Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church.
Transfiguration Catholic Church
Church
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The Transfiguration Catholic Church, also known as Church of the Transfiguration, is a Roman Catholic church at 64-14 Clinton Avenue in Maspeth, Queens, New York City. Transfiguration Catholic Church is situated 3,200 feet southeast of Mount Zion Cemetery.
Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church
Church
The Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church, also known as the Church of the Holy Cross, is a Roman Catholic church located at 61-21 56th Road in Maspeth, Queens, New York City. Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church is situated 2,800 feet southeast of Mount Zion Cemetery.
St. Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church
Church
St. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Church is a Catholic church in Maspeth, Queens, New York City, whose parish was organized in 1872. Historically, it is one of only three churches in the area to have organized schools for its parishioners, known as the St. St. Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church is situated 3,300 feet south of Mount Zion Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maspeth and Woodside.
Maspeth
Neighborhood
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Maspeth is a residential and commercial community in the borough of Queens in New York City. It was founded in the early 17th century by Dutch and English settlers.
Woodside
Quarter
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Woodside is a neighborhood in the western portion of the borough of Queens in New York City. It is bordered on the south by Maspeth, on the north by Astoria, on the west by Sunnyside, and on the east by Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, and East Elmhurst.
Sunnyside Gardens
Neighborhood
Sunnyside Gardens is a community within Sunnyside, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. The area was the first development in the United States patterned after the ideas of the garden city movement initiated in England in the first decades of the twentieth century by Ebenezer Howard and Raymond Unwin, specifically Hampstead Garden Suburb and Letchworth Garden City.
Mount Zion Cemetery
- Category: burial
- Location: Queens, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Mount Zion Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Cementiri Mount Zion, Queens”
- Czech: “Hřbitov Mount Zion”
- Czech: “Mount Zion Cemetery”
- Georgian: “მაუნტ-ზაიონის სასაფლაო”
- Hebrew: “בית עלמין הר ציון - ניו יורק”
- Slovenian: “Mount Zion Cemetery”
- Swedish: “Mount Zion Cemetery”
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