Mount Sinai Cemetery (Omaha, Nebraska)
Mount Sinai Cemetery may refer to: *Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery, California, U.S. *Mount Sinai Memorial Park (Toronto), Ontario, Canada *New Mount Sinai Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. See also * Monastery of the Transfiguration's charnel house, at base of Mount Sinai, in Egypt *Mount Sinai (other) Mount Sinai is a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. Mount Sinai may also refer to: * Mount Sinai (Bible), where, according to the Bible, God gave Moses the Ten Commandments Places * Mount Sinai, Indiana, U.S. * Mount Sinai, New York, U.S. ...

Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery
Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery is the largest Jewish cemetery organization in California. History Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries, owned by Sinai Temple of Los Angeles, refers to two Jewish cemeteries in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The original cemetery property is located at 5950 Forest Lawn Drive in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles. The cemetery was originally established in 1953 by the neighboring Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills Cemetery. In 1959, it became an exclusively Jewish cemetery, and in 1967 it was acquired by Sinai Temple, the oldest and largest Conservative synagogue in Los Angeles,Ruth Stroud"Westward Expansion" ''Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles'', March 20, 1997.Tracy Valeri"Mount Sinai Park Dedication Set" '' Los Angeles Daily News'', March 15, 1997. which dedicated its mortuary and cemetery resources to all members of the Jewish community in and around the city. Numerous stars and celebrities from the entertainment industry are in ...
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Mount Sinai Memorial Park (Toronto)
This is a list of cemeteries in Toronto. {, class="wikitable sortable" , - bgcolor="lightblue" !width=23%, Name !width=15%, Location !width=10%, Dates !width=10%, Interments !width=15%, Affiliation !width=35%, Notes !width=7%, Image , - , Armadale Free Methodist Cemetery , Armadale, Ontario, Armadale , 1885– , , Free Methodist , , , - , Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park , Newtonbrook, Toronto, Newtonbrook , 1929– , , Jewish , , , - , Beth Tzedec Memorial Park , Westminster-Branson , 1949– , 4,414 , Conservative Judaism , Westminster Gardens located west of the site is part of Park Lawn Cemetery group. , , - , Bethel Cemetery , Scarborough Junction , 1842 , , Non-denominational , , , - , Bingham Family Cemetery , Princess Gardens , 1843–1973 , , , Closed and graves moved to Riverside Cemetery. Now residential neighbourhood. , , - , Christ Church St. James Memorial Garden & Cemetery , Mimico , 1832– , 500 , originally Anglican; now non-denominational , Still ...
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New Mount Sinai Cemetery
New Mount Sinai Cemetery is a cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. Its first burial was in 1853, and its rural cemetery landscape design was laid out in 1907. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. As of the 2005 listing, the cemetery also has a Modern-style community mausoleum, three private mausoleums (Art Deco, Modern, Neo-Classical), and a formal Japanese garden. With 38 photos, with photo descriptions commencing on page 49). Its listing includes 39 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 2 other contributing structures. Deemed as contributing resources were: *the rural cemetery itself, *its traditional, old Jewish graveyard, which are sections A, B, and F of the cemetery, *the red granite and wrought iron gate, *the monumental Art Deco entrance gate, *Greek Revival chapel, * Queen Anne "House of Comfort" building, *37(?) small mausoleums in Greek Revival, Egyptian Revival, Classical Revival, Art Deco, Modern Modern may refer to: History * ...
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Charnel House
A charnel house is a vault or building where human skeletal remains are stored. They are often built near churches for depositing bones that are unearthed while digging graves. The term can also be used more generally as a description of a place filled with death and destruction. The term is borrowed from Middle French ''charnel'', from Late Latin ''carnāle'' ("graveyard"), from Latin ''carnālis'' ("of the flesh"). Africa, Europe, and Asia In countries where ground suitable for burial was scarce, corpses would be interred for approximately five years following death, thereby allowing decomposition to occur. After this, the remains would be exhumed and moved to an ossuary or charnel house, thereby allowing the original burial place to be reused. In modern times, the use of charnel houses is a characteristic of cultures living in rocky or arid places, such as the Cyclades archipelago and other Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. Monastery of the Transfiguration (Saint Catheri ...
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