Mount Olivet Cemetery and Mausoleum
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Mount Olivet Cemetery and Mausoleum

New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA

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    New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
    Coordinates: 29.99890, -90.06355
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The Arabian Cemetery is a communal tomb inside Mount Olivet Cemetery in New Orleans, in the Gentilly neighborhood near Dillard University. Exactly when and who commissioned this tomb is not yet known. The tomb is a large coping with twelve surviving grave markers, with inscriptions in English and Arabic. The earliest of these inscriptions dates to 1936, and the last was in 1983, but again, we do not know when the earliest interment took place. The tomb appears to have been inactive since the 1980s. More grave markers may have existed in the past, but were lost, and other graves were probably never marked. One of the markers indicates that the grave belonged to a native of modern India. According to newspaper obituaries, other interments were for natives of Turkey, Syria, and Palestine, and their spouses and children. The current evidence suggests that this coping was built by Muslim men who immigrated from South Asia and the Middle East, and who settled in New Orleans between 1880 and 1950. Furthermore, Mount Olivet Cemetery is a historically black cemetery, established in 1918. Obituaries indicates that many of these Muslim immigrants took local women as wives, especially local African American women.
The Arabian Cemetery is a communal tomb inside Mount Olivet Cemetery in New Orleans, in the Gentilly neighborhood near Dillard University. Exactly when and who commissioned this tomb is not yet known. The tomb is a large coping with twelve surviving grave markers, with inscriptions in English and Arabic. The earliest of these inscriptions dates to 1936, and the last was in 1983, but again, we do not know when the earliest interment took place. The tomb appears to have been inactive since the 1980s. More grave markers may have existed in the past, but were lost, and other graves were probably never marked. One of the markers indicates that the grave belonged to a native of modern India. According to newspaper obituaries, other interments were for natives of Turkey, Syria, and Palestine, and their spouses and children. The current evidence suggests that this coping was built by Muslim men who immigrated from South Asia and the Middle East, and who settled in New Orleans between 1880 and 1950. Furthermore, Mount Olivet Cemetery is a historically black cemetery, established in 1918. Obituaries indicates that many of these Muslim immigrants took local women as wives, especially local African American women.

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