Shara Tefilo Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana

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Get directions S West Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46225 United States

Coordinates: 39.73481, -86.16202
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In 1856 the city's first Jewish congregation, The Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation (IHC) was formed and saw a need for a cemetery. The synagogue purchased land on Kelly Street. The IHC sold pieces of the cemetery to new congregations as they formed.

As you are looking at the cemeteries they appear to be just one cemetery, however, they are all separate and distinct cemeteries as each cemetery represents a separate congregation. Most of which are now defunct.

The cemetery is on the east side of S West Street. The cemetery is south of Old Raymond Street and east of Bluff Road and north of a line extended west from W Kelly Street.

Indiana Cemetery Locations, Volume 1, published by the Indiana Genealogical Society (02 April 2005), gives the primary cemetery name as Hebrew Congregational Cemetery.

The cemetery is listed in the Cemetery and Burial Grounds Registry of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and in the State Historical Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD) with Cemetery Record Number CR-49-1 (Congregation Beth-El Zedek / Ohev Zedek / Hebrew / Southside).

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 435959 (Hebrew Cemetery). This is a collective designation for the Jewish cemeteries in this area, which are not distinguished by congregation.