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Area
  
less than one acre

Year built
  
1762

NRHP Reference #
  
96001223

Added to NRHP
  
5 November 1996

Coming Street Cemetery

Location
  
189 Coming St., Charleston, South Carolina

Address
  
189 Coming St, Charleston, SC 29403, USA

Burials
  
Penina Moise, Sarah Visanska

The Coming Street Cemetery is located at 189 Coming Street, in Charleston, South Carolina. This Jewish cemetery, one of the oldest in the United States was founded in 1762 by Sephardi Jews and is the oldest Jewish burial ground in the South. Burials in the Coming Street Cemetery are now restricted to the few vacancies in the adjacent family plots. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

The Coming Street cemetery is a private burial ground owned by Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Synagogue and is not open to the public.

References

Coming Street Cemetery Wikipedia