West Ham Jewish Cemetery

West Ham Jewish Cemetery
Details
Established1856
Location
Buckingham Road, West Ham (London Borough of Newham), London E15 1SP
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Coordinates51°33′10″N 0°00′44″E / 51.5528°N 0.0123°E / 51.5528; 0.0123 – Mausoleum
TypeClosed (since 2002)
Owned byUnited Synagogue Burial Society
WebsiteOfficial website
Find a GraveWest Ham Jewish Cemetery

West Ham Jewish Cemetery is a cemetery for Jews in West Ham in the London Borough of Newham, England. It was established in 1856 by the New Synagogue on Great St. Helen's, soon joined by the Great Synagogue in Duke's Place, both of them London congregations. It has been closed to new burials since 2002

There are a number of notable people buried here, in a graveyard visually dominated by the imposing Rothschild Mausoleum. One section contains graves removed to this burial place from the former Hoxton burial ground of the Hambro Synagogue when that site underwent urban redevelopment. The oldest legible tombstone in this section dates from 1794.