Home of Peace Cemetery (Colma, California)

Home of Peace Cemetery, also known as Navai Shalome,[1] is a Jewish cemetery established in 1889, and is located at 1299 El Camino Real in Colma, California.[2] The cemetery contains the Emanu-El Mausoleum, owned by and serving the Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco.[3] It is one of four Jewish cemeteries near the city of San Francisco and it shares an adjacent space next to the Hills of Eternity Memorial Park (also a Jewish cemetery, and also founded in 1889).[4]

Home of Peace Cemetery
Emanu-El Mausoleum at Home of Peace (completed 1935)
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Established1889
Location
CountryUnited States
Coordinates37°40′41″N 122°27′11″W / 37.678113°N 122.453050°W / 37.678113; -122.453050
TypeJewish
Owned byCongregation Emanu-El
Websitejcemsf.org/home-of-peace-cemetery/
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History

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Levi Strauss mausoleum at the Home of Peace Cemetery

Emanu-El Hart (or the "Old Jewish Cemetery") was built in 1847 at Gough Street and Vallejo Street in San Francisco; by 1860 the remains were relocated to an area that is now Mission Dolores Park and this served as a cemetery for the Congregation Emanu-El and the Congregation Sherith Israel.[5][6] When the city of San Francisco started to see dramatic growth in population; it was decided to move the cemetery outside of the city to Colma and they established Home of Peace Cemetery and Hills of Eternity Memorial Park with each cemetery serving a different congregation.[6]

Notable burials

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Home of Peace (new) Cemetery (aka Giboth Olam and Navai Shalome)". SFGenealogy.org. Retrieved 2021-10-10.
  2. ^ a b BART-San Francisco International Airport Extension: Environmental Impact Statement. Vol. 1. United States Federal Transit Administration. 1996. pp. 3.4–7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ "Home of Peace Cemetery". J. The Jewish News of Northern California. Retrieved 2021-10-10.
  4. ^ a b c Smookler, Michael (2007). Colma. Arcadia Publishing. p. 48-49. ISBN 978-0-7385-4727-5.
  5. ^ Peterson, Nancy Simons (2011). Raking the Ashes: Genealogical Strategies for Pre-1906 San Francisco Research. California Genealogical Society. Oakland, California: California Genealogical Society. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-9785694-5-7.
  6. ^ a b Cantalupo, Barbara; Harrison-Kahan, Lori (2020-11-03). Heirs of Yesterday. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-4669-3.
  7. ^ a b Spencer, Thomas E. (1998). Where They're Buried: A Directory Containing More Than Twenty Thousand Names of Notable Persons Buried in American Cemeteries, with Listings of Many Prominent People who Were Cremated. Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-8063-4823-0.
  8. ^ a b Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949: The Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States from the First to the Eightieth Congress, March 4, 1789 to January 3, 1949, Inclusive. United States Congress, United States Congress Joint Committee on Printing. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1950. p. 1392. ISBN 978-0-598-68615-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  9. ^ Bakken, Gordon Morris; Kindell, Alexandra (2006-02-24). Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West. SAGE. pp. 607–608. ISBN 978-1-4129-0550-3.
  10. ^ Downey, Lynn (2007). Levi Strauss and Co. Arcadia Publishing. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-7385-5553-9.