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The Salgotarjani Street Jewish Cemetery (Hungarian: ''Salgótarjáni úti zsidó temető'') is a Jewish cemetery of Budapest, Hungary. It is located in the 8th district of Budapest Józsefváros, besides Kerepesi Cemetery (officially named ''Fiumei úti nemzeti sírkert''), with a stone wall between them. It opened in
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and is now the oldest remaining Jewish cemetery on the
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side of the city. When it was created, it was the third, after the cemeteries of Vaci and Lehel streets; since, these ones have disappeared, and buildings have been erected there.


References

* ''Jewish Budapest. Monuments, rites, history'', by Kinga Frojimovics, Geza Komoroczy, Viktoria Pusztai and Andrea Strbik. Central European University Press, 1999. . * ''A Salgótarjáni utcai zsidó temető'', by Vilmos Tóth and Károly Zsolt Nagy. Nemzeti Örökség Intézete, 2014


External links


Kerepesi/Salgótarjáni utca Cemetery, Budapest
on Jewish Heritage Europe. {{coord, 47.4915, N, 19.0991, E, source:wikidata, display=title Cemeteries in Budapest Jewish cemeteries in Hungary Józsefváros 1874 establishments in Austria-Hungary 19th-century establishments in Hungary