This cemetery is extremely beautiful. Unfortunately, the tight security and ban on photo taking is quite intimidating even for the seasoned adventurer.
When I was in college in Newark, I visited one day for a class project and managed to get almost 400 pictures of this elusive and heavily watched cemetery. After printing what I needed for class, my computer crashed and all pictures were lost. It drives me crazy to this day.
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery's mailing address is in East Orange, but half of the cemetery lies in Newark and has served the residents of Newark, NJ throughout it's years of operation (founded 1859). It is not a parochial cemetery but is rather a diocesan cemetery. The cemetery lies just four blocks from Fairmount Cemetery and is almost as large, over 20 square blocks between Grove Street, Central Ave., Birchwood/Maybaum Aves. and South Orange Ave.
Holy Sepulchre's entrance is also on Central Avenue, with a side entrance on Grove Street. The cemetery is split into two parts by the New Jersey Garden State Parkway, with some headstones just four feet from the shoulder of the roadway.
There is much controversy over this cemetery, and your own research will be quite enjoyable if you love history of graveyards. On the website findagrave.com, it lists only 3% of the 158,280 interments. Makes you wonder what the big "secret" is. We have our own ideas. See what you come up with while "investigating" the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.
When I was in college in Newark, I visited one day for a class project and managed to get almost 400 pictures of this elusive and heavily watched cemetery. After printing what I needed for class, my computer crashed and all pictures were lost. It drives me crazy to this day.
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery's mailing address is in East Orange, but half of the cemetery lies in Newark and has served the residents of Newark, NJ throughout it's years of operation (founded 1859). It is not a parochial cemetery but is rather a diocesan cemetery. The cemetery lies just four blocks from Fairmount Cemetery and is almost as large, over 20 square blocks between Grove Street, Central Ave., Birchwood/Maybaum Aves. and South Orange Ave.
Holy Sepulchre's entrance is also on Central Avenue, with a side entrance on Grove Street. The cemetery is split into two parts by the New Jersey Garden State Parkway, with some headstones just four feet from the shoulder of the roadway.
There is much controversy over this cemetery, and your own research will be quite enjoyable if you love history of graveyards. On the website findagrave.com, it lists only 3% of the 158,280 interments. Makes you wonder what the big "secret" is. We have our own ideas. See what you come up with while "investigating" the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.
