The Ulus Ashkenazi Jewish Cemetery ( tr, Ulus Aşkenazi Musevi Mezarlığı) is a

burial ground A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

of the

Ashkenazi Jewish Ashkenazi Jews ( ; he, יְהוּדֵי אַשְׁכְּנַז, translit=Yehudei Ashkenaz, ; yi, אַשכּנזישע ייִדן, Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or ''Ashkenazim'',, Ashkenazi Hebrew pronunciation: , singu ...

community in Istanbul, Turkey. However, it is also used today for Sephardi burials due to overpopulation of the nearby

Ulus Sephardi Jewish Cemetery The Ulus Sephardi Jewish Cemetery ( tr, Ulus Sefarad Musevi Mezarlığı) or Arnavutköy Jewish Cemetery ( tr, Arnavutköy Musevi Mezarlığı) is a burial ground of the Sephardi Jewish community in Istanbul, Turkey. It was established in 1901 d ...

( tr, Ulus Sefarad Musevi Mezarlığı), which is about north of the Ashkenazi Jewish Cemetery on the same street. It was established in the beginning of the 1900s during the Ottoman Empire era in

Arnavutköy Arnavutköy ( Albanian village; el, Μέγα Ρεύμα, Mega Revma) is a neighbourhood in Istanbul, Turkey renowned for its wooden Ottoman mansions and seafood restaurants, as well as for the campus of the prestigious Robert College with its h ...

neighborhood of

Beşiktaş Beşiktaş () is a district and municipality of Istanbul, Turkey, located on the European shore of the Bosphorus strait. It is bordered on the north by Sarıyer and Şişli, on the west by Kağıthane and Şişli, on the south by Beyoğlu, and ...

district on the city's European side. The cemetery is situated today in an area, which developed in the history from a countryside to an upscale neighborhood called Ulus. It was reported that due to the location of the cemetery in the city's one of the most expensive quarters, only wealthy people are interred in the ultra-luxury Ulus Cemetery while people, who can not afford the very high amount of donation requested for a resting place, are transferred to the cemetery in

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, which lies around far away from the city center in northern part of Istanbul. The religious burial service is provided at site by the Neve Shalom Synagogue Foundation, which also carries out the maintenance of the cemetery. Some other Jewish cemeteries in Istanbul are: * Bağlarbaşı Jewish Cemetery (Bağlarbaşı Musevi Mezarlığı) * Hasköy Karaite Jewish Cemetery (Hasköy Karaim Musevi Mezarlığı) * Hasköy Sephardi Jews Cemetery (Hasköy Sefarad Musevi Mezarlığı) * Judeo-Italiano Community Cemetery (İtalyan Musevi Cemaati Mezarlığı *

Jewish Cemetery (Kilyos Musevi Mezarlığı) * Kuzguncuk Nakkaştepe Jewish Cemetery (Kuzguncuk Nakkaştepe Musevi Mezarlığı) * Ortaköy Jewish Cemetery (Ortaköy Musevi Mezarlığı)

Notable burials

The 23 victims of the 1986 Neve Shalom Synagogue bombing and the six Turkish Jews out of 29 people, who were killed in the 15 November 2003 bombings of Neve Shalom and Bet Israel Synagogue in Istanbul, are interred here. There is also a monument in the cemetery memorizing the victims of both events. * Hayati Kamhi, businessman and son of entrepreneur

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*Bensiyon Pinto, honorary president of the Turkish Jewish Community

References

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* – list of Burial at the Ulus Ashkenazi Cemetery {{DEFAULTSORT:Ulus Ashkenazi Jewish Cemetery Cemeteries in Istanbul Jewish cemeteries in Turkey Beşiktaş Bosphorus 1900s establishments in the Ottoman Empire Ashkenazi Jewish culture in Turkey Jews and Judaism in Istanbul Jewish cemeteries

Notable burials

See also

References

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