Home Of Peace Cemetery (Sacramento, California)
The Home of Peace Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery founded in 1924, and located at 6200 Stockton Boulevard in Sacramento, California. This cemetery contains some of the earliest Jewish gravestones in the western United States, moved from Chevra Kaddisha Cemetery.
History
The Home of Peace Cemetery land was purchased by Congregation B'nai Israel of Sacramento and donated to the Sacramento Benevolent Hebrew Society. The cemetery is a wedge shaped parcel and approximately 10-acres in size. Many of the graves from the precursor Chevra Kaddisha Cemetery (established in 1850), and were moved to Home of Peace Cemetery around the time of its opening in 1924. In a public ceremony in November 1925, Congregation B'nai Israel of Sacramento and Mosaic Law Congregation worked together to consecrate the land.
See also
- List of cemeteries in California
- Sonora Hebrew Cemetery, first Jewish cemetery in the Gold Rush area
References
- ^ Western States Jewish History. Southern California Jewish Historical Society. 2006.
- ^ Burek, Deborah M. (1994). Cemeteries of the U.S.: A Guide to Contact Information for U.S. Cemeteries and Their Records. Gale Research Incorporated. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-8103-9245-8.
- ^ "Ill-suited Neighbors, Cemetery Owners Not Pleased with Adjoining Junkyard". The Sacramento Bee. 1987-06-12. p. 1. ISSN 0890-5738. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
- ^ "Jews to Dedicated New Burial Ground". The Sacramento Bee. 1925-11-25. p. 14. ISSN 0890-5738. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
- ^ "City's first Jewish cemetery was located in today's East Sacramento". Valley Community Newspapers. Archived from the original on 2023-01-07. Retrieved 2023-01-08.
- ^ Simpson, Lee M. A. (2004). East Sacramento. Arcadia Publishing. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-7385-2931-8.