Mountain View Cemetery
The Mountain View Cemetery is a 226-acre rural cemetery in Oakland, California, United States. It was established in 1863 by a group of East Bay pioneers under the California Rural Cemetery Act of 1859.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hank Chapot, CC BY 3.0.
- Opening hours: Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday 8:00 AM—6:00 PM
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Oakland, California, United States
- Also known as: “Home of Eternity Cemetery”
- Address: 5000 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA 94611
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Saint Mary Cemetery and Piedmont Avenue Branch Library.
Saint Mary Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.
Saint Mary Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery in Oakland, California, adjacent to Mountain View Cemetery. Saint Mary Cemetery is situated 2,100 feet west of Mountain View Cemetery.
Piedmont Avenue Branch Library
Library
Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Piedmont Avenue Branch Library is situated 1 mile southwest of Mountain View Cemetery.
Temescal Regional Recreational Area
Park
Photo: Lagringa, Public domain.
Temescal Regional Recreation Area, formerly Lake Temescal Regional Park, is a regional park in the Berkeley Hills, in northeastern Oakland, California.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Piedmont and Rockridge.
Piedmont
Town
Photo: Sam Pullara, CC BY 2.0.
Oakland is a port city in the Bay Area of California in the United States of America. Once an industrial area overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger neighbor to the west, this city of 440,000 people has begun to step out from under San Francisco's shadow with its notable natural and architectural features and its rise as the multicultural "hipster" city of the Bay Area.
Rockridge
Neighborhood
Photo: Miskatonic, CC BY 2.5.
Rockridge is a residential neighborhood and commercial district in Oakland, California. Rockridge is generally defined as the area east of Telegraph Avenue, south of the Berkeley city limits, west of the Oakland Hills and north of the intersection of Pleasant Valley Avenue/51st Street and Broadway.
Piedmont Avenue
Neighborhood
Photo: Daniel Olsen, CC BY 2.5.
The Piedmont Avenue neighborhood is a residential and commercial district in the North Oakland region of Oakland, California. It is named for Piedmont Avenue, a commercial street known for dining and retail.
Mountain View Cemetery
- Category: burial
- Location: Alameda, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.83506° or 37° 50′ 6″ northLongitude
-122.23605° or 122° 14′ 10″ westElevation
377 feet (115 metres)Inception
1863Open location code
849VRQP7+2HOpenStreetMap ID
way 25207152OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryGeoNames ID
5550311Wikidata ID
Q3866478
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Mountain View Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Mauntin-Vyu qəbiristanlığı”
- Chinese: “山景公墓”
- Dutch: “Mountain View Cemetery”
- French: “cimetière de Mountain View”
- French: “Cimetière de Mountain View”
- Georgian: “მაუნდ-ვიუს სასაფლაო”
- Hebrew: “בית הקברות מאונטן ויו”
- Italian: “Mountain View Cemetery”
- Japanese: “マウンテン・ビュー・セメタリー”
- Japanese: “マウンテン・ビュー共同墓地”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mountain View Cemetery”
- Portuguese: “Cemitério de Mountain View”
- Russian: “Кладбище Маунтин Вью”
- Russian: “кладбище Маунтин-Вью”
- Slovenian: “Mountain View Cemetery”
- Spanish: “cementerio de Mountain View”
- Spanish: “Cementerio de Mountain View”
- Swedish: “Mountain View Cemetery”
- Ukrainian: “кладовище Маунтін-В’ю”
- Ukrainian: “Маунтін-В’ю (цвинтар, Окленд, Каліфорнія)”
- Ukrainian: “цвинтар Маунтін-В’ю”
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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 “Mountain View Cemetery”. Photo: Hank Chapot, CC BY 3.0.