Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries
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The Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries are a group of Jewish cemeteries in use since the 1920’s on Baker Street in the West Roxbury section of Boston. The cemeteries are located on land that once formed part of Brook Farm.
The series of small cemeteries are strung along both sides of a narrow access road that leads only to the last of the small cemeteries. Each was owned and managed by an individual Boston-area congregation or Jewish organization. [1]
According to the Boston Globe, “the Baker Street cemeteries are home to some of the city's most striking, albeit endangered, examples of historic religious architecture. Dotting the road are 10 chapel buildings about the size of one-room schoolhouses, perfectly rendered synagogues in miniature, with glorious stained glass, vaulted ceilings, ornate chandeliers, oak pulpits, and other vestiges of the final destination for members of a once-thriving immigrant community.” [2]
[edit] Notable people buried in the Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries
- Morton W. Bloomfield
- Johnny Most
- Nahum Sarna
- Joseph B. Soloveitchik
[edit] References
- ^ Baker St. Jewish Cemeteries, West Roxbury, MA
- ^ Volunteers keep spirit of Jewish forebears alive, By Linda Matchan, Boston Globe, October 10, 2005 [1]
