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Cemetery Identification
Cemetery ID: USA-07986
Cemetery Name: Cemetery Knesses Israel
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Cemetery Location
Country: USA
State:Alabama
City: Birmingham
Street: 120 Eleventh Courth North
Cemetery Details
Number of Burials: 1675
Number of Photographs: 0
Cemetery Description:

The Knesseth Israel and Beth-El Cemetery, also known as Cemetery Knesses Israel, is a cemetery founded in 1890 by the Knesseth Israel Congregation on land donated by Temple Emanu-El. When Temple Beth-El split from Knesseth Israel in 1908, the congregations maintained a joint cemetery association and Chevra Kadisha society.

Data provided courtesy of Lynn Franklin and Bob Sweeney's "Southern Jewish Databases and Cemetery Listings" Please see their site for headstone photos, additional cemetery information and other southern Jewish databases at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ssjdb/ and choose the appropriate cemetery.

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Data last updated: 06/08/2018

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