Grove Street Jewish Cemeteries - Boston, MA, USA - Worldwide Cemeteries on Waymarking.com

In Boston's West Roxbury neighborhood, is the Grove Street Jewish Cemeteries.

The cemeteries are on the Boston side of the city limits with Dedham. The entrance at Grove Street is just south of the southern entrance to St. Mary's Cemetery. The access road is named Jeshurun Street. Follow the road to the end where there is a turn around and a chapel.

From this location, in all directions, are the individual burial grounds for the area synagogues. The web site for the Jewish American Cemetery Association of Massachusetts that maintains these grounds has a schematic map that shows which burial area goes with each congregation. I counted on the map and came up with 20 different divisions, most of which had easily hundreds of graves. Collectively, there are several thousand graves.

The graves there were of all sorts of shapes and sizes, some with Hebrew lettering, some with English. A lot of the grounds are tightly packed together.

I can't determine when the earliest cemetery was founded. I saw one bronze plaque state the year 1916 for a cemetery, and 1889 for the founding of a congregation. The cemetetery may have been founded soon after that. Thus, the cemetery is about 100 years old.

Of course, when you are at a cemetery, please be respectful of the grounds and gravestones. Some of the roads through the cemetery are narrow and better walked than driven.

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