Cemeteries · London
Novo Cemetery
Also known as: The Novo Cemetery
Novo Cemetery is a cemetery in the United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 30 min–1 h
- Nearest railway station
- Mile End · 0.4 km
- Free entry
- Dog-friendly
About
Novo Cemetery is a named cemetery in the United Kingdom. Denomination: sephardi. OpenStreetMap heritage rating: 2/5. Address: 320, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS. Also known as: The Novo Cemetery. Coordinates: 51.5245°, -0.0392°.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Novo Cemetery is a Grade II listed Sephardic Jewish cemetery located within the grounds of Queen Mary University of London in Mile End in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Opened in 1733, it is one of only two exclusively Sephardic cemeteries left in England.
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Background
History
England's first Jewish cemetery, the Velho Cemetery, was built on a small plot of land in Mile End in 1657. As the nearby Jewish community grew in size the Velho began to fill up. By 1726, it was nearly full, so land for a second, larger Sephardi cemetery, the Novo Cemetery, was leased, with the first burials taking place in 1733. By 1895 the cemetery was almost full, and it was closed for burials for adults in 1905 and for children in 1918. Historic England added it to the register of listed buildings in 2014, as a Grade II. In 1984, “Seven thousand graves had been removed and reinterred at Brentwood in Essex. The remaining part of the cemetery contains the most recent burials - from 1865…
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- Coordinates
- 51.5245, -0.0392
- District
- Tower Hamlets
- Parish
- Tower Hamlets, unparished area
- Postcode
- E1 4NS
- Parliamentary constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney
- Established
- 1733
- Nearest railway station
- Mile End — 0.4 km
Sources
- osm: w29060207 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Novo Cemetery (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Mile End – Nuevo (New) Jewish Cemetery.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Novo Cemetery?
- Novo Cemetery is in London, United Kingdom (postcode E1 4NS), in the parish of Tower Hamlets, unparished area.
- When was Novo Cemetery built?
- Built or established in 1733.
- Who owns Novo Cemetery?
- Novo Cemetery is owned by | size =.
- How do I get to Novo Cemetery?
- The nearest railway station is Mile End, about 0.4 km away. Drivers can navigate to postcode E1 4NS.