Cemetery
Symonds Street Jewish Cemetery
Auckland
- Type
- Cemetery
- City
- Auckland
- Region
- Auckland
- Established
- 1842
- Current status
- Historic burial ground
Verified — secondary source
Land was granted to Auckland's Jewish community in 1842 — consecrated Jewish burial ground before there was a Jewish building in which to pray.
The first recorded Jewish burial there took place in 1844: Catherine Nathan, the infant daughter of David and Rosetta Nathan.
A mortuary chapel later stood in the Jewish section. A formal Chevra Kadisha was established in Auckland in 1906.
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