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Holy Cross Cemetery

Holy Cross Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery in , operated by the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Established in 1887 on 300 acres, it is one of the oldest and largest cemeteries in .
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  • Type: Cemetery
  • Denomination: Roman Catholic
  • Description: cemetery in Colma, California
  • Also known as: “Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery”, “Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma”, and “Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma”
  • Address: 1500 Mission Road, Colma, 94014

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include El Camino High School and South San Francisco station.

School
is a four-year American public high school in , . It is located directly across from the South San Francisco BART Station. is situated 1,700 feet southeast of Holy Cross Cemetery.

Metro station
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is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station located in in northern . It consists of two main tracks and a shared underground island platform. is situated 2,500 feet south of Holy Cross Cemetery.

Cemetery
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, also known as Giboth Olam, is a Jewish cemetery founded in 1889, and is located at 1301 El Camino Real, in . is situated 3,100 feet northwest of Holy Cross Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Colma and Serramonte.

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is on the in the Bay Area of . The city is in San Mateo County and is south of Daly City and west of Brisbane.

Quarter
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is a large 1960s residential neighborhood on the border of and in the suburbs south of San Francisco, California, that is also home to numerous , strip malls, and big box retailers.

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is a hidden oasis of the Bay Area in , located just south of and north of on the . When you say "South San Francisco" to out-of-towners, they think that you live in the southern part of proper.

Holy Cross Cemetery

Latitude
37.67118° or 37° 40′ 16″ north
Longitude
-122.44422° or 122° 26′ 39″ west
Elevation
131 feet (40 metres)
Inception
1887
Open location code
849VMHC4+F8
Open­Street­Map ID
way 24513384
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­cemetery
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­cemetery
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­roman_catholic
Geo­Names ID
5357636
Wiki­data ID
Q8509540
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swedish—“Holy Cross Cemetery” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “cementiri Holy Cross”
  • Chinese: “天主教聖十字架墓園”
  • Chinese: “聖十字架墓園”
  • Dutch: “Holy Cross Cemetery”
  • Polish: “Holy Cross Cemetery (Colma)”
  • Polish: “Holy Cross Cemetery”
  • Swedish: “Holy Cross 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 “Holy Cross Cemetery”. Photo: BrokenSphere, CC BY 3.0.