Brady Street Cemetery

The Brady Street Cemetery is a historic Jewish cemetery on Brady Street in Whitechapel, located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The cemetery opened in 1761 as the burial ground for the New Synagogue and was subsequently used by the Great Synagogue.

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Type: Cemetery
Description: Jewish cemetery in Whitechapel, London
Also known as: “Brady Street Cemetery, Whitechapel”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Bethnal Green railway station and The Tower of London.

Bethnal Green railway station

Railway station

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Bethnal Green is a railway station on the Weaver line of the London Overground, located in the southern part of Bethnal Green in East London. The station is 1 mile 10 chains down the line from London Liverpool Street; the next station is either Hackney Downs or Cambridge Heath. Bethnal Green railway station is situated 760 feet north of Brady Street Cemetery.

The Tower of London

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The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic citadel and castle on the north bank of the River Thames in London, England. The Tower of London is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Brady Street Cemetery.

Whitechapel station

Metro station

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Whitechapel is an interchange station in Whitechapel, East London for London Underground, London Overground and Elizabeth line services. The station is located behind a street market of the same name and opposite Tower Hamlets Town Hall. Whitechapel station is situated 800 feet south of Brady Street Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mile End New Town and Whitechapel.

Mile End New Town

Locality

Mile End New Town is a former hamlet and then civil parish in the East End of London. Its former area is now part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. At the 1911 census, Mile End New Town had a population of 11,341.

Whitechapel

Suburb

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Whitechapel is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, England. It is in East London and part of the East End. It is the location of Tower Hamlets Town Hall and the borough town centre.

Bethnal Green

Suburb

Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Bethnal Green is an area in London, England, and is located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is in east London and part of the East End. The area emerged from the small settlement which developed around the Green, much of which survives today as Bethnal Green Gardens, beside Cambridge Heath Road.

Brady Street Cemetery

Categories: Jewish cemetery and burial
Location: Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.52192° or 51° 31′ 19″ north

Longitude

-0.06072° or 0° 3′ 39″ west

Inception

1761

Open location code

9C3XGWCQ+QP

OpenStreetMap ID

way 15085257

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=cemetery

Wikidata ID

Q38250626

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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Polish—“Brady Street Cemetery” goes by many names.

Azerbaijani: “Bredi-Strit qəbiristanlığı”
Polish: “Cmentarz żydowski przy Brady Street w Londynie”

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