Givat Shaul Cemetery

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Jewish cemetery burial ground cemetery religious site

Givat Shaul Cemetery, also known as Har HaMenuchot, is a major Jewish burial ground in Jerusalem and one of Israel’s largest and most prominent cemeteries.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Givat Shaul Cemetery canonical	1
Har HaMenuchot cemetery, Jerusalem	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Jewish cemetery ⓘ burial ground ⓘ cemetery ⓘ religious site ⓘ
adjacentTo	Givat Shaul industrial area NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerusalem–Tel Aviv Highway (Highway 1) NERFINISHED ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Har HaMenuchos NERFINISHED ⓘ Har HaMenuchot NERFINISHED ⓘ
burialTradition	Jewish halachic burial practices ⓘ
continent	Asia ⓘ
country	Israel ⓘ
culturalRole	central burial place for Jerusalem’s religious population ⓘ important pilgrimage site for some Jewish communities ⓘ
denomination	Haredi Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ Orthodox Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ Religious Zionist Judaism ⓘ
established	mid-20th century ⓘ
hasFeature	multi-level burial structures ⓘ ohelim over graves of prominent rabbis ⓘ roads and paths for funeral processions ⓘ separate sections for different communities ⓘ terraced burial areas ⓘ view over Jerusalem ⓘ
hasSection	Ashkenazi section ⓘ Haredi section ⓘ Holocaust survivors’ section ⓘ Sephardi section ⓘ military section ⓘ
languageOfSignage	English ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ
locatedIn	Jerusalem ⓘ western Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedInNeighborhood	Givat Shaul NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedOn	a hill west of Jerusalem city center ⓘ
notableFor	graves of cultural figures ⓘ graves of political figures ⓘ graves of prominent rabbis ⓘ large number of visitors on yahrzeit dates ⓘ
operatedBy	Chevra Kadisha organizations NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerusalem municipality NERFINISHED ⓘ
region	Jerusalem District NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	Judaism ⓘ
significance	major burial site for religious Jewish communities ⓘ one of Israel’s largest cemeteries ⓘ one of Jerusalem’s main Jewish cemeteries ⓘ
usedFor	Jewish burials ⓘ family plots ⓘ rabbinic burials ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Har HaMenuchot → hasAlternativeName → Givat Shaul Cemetery ⓘ

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef → burialPlace → Givat Shaul Cemetery ⓘ

subject surface form: Ovadia Yosef

this entity surface form: Har HaMenuchot cemetery, Jerusalem