Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery, Jewish cemetery in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, US.
Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery at 5950 Forest Lawn Drive in the Hollywood Hills, down the street from Warner Bros Studios. Its Hollywood Hills grounds hold mosaics, sculpture, fountains and carvings, among them the Heritage Mosaic, a 145 by 30 foot panorama of the Jewish experience in America made of more than 2.5 million pieces of hand-cut Venetian glass.
Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills founded the grounds in 1953 as part of a larger cemetery complex. Six years later, in 1959, the section became reserved exclusively for Jewish burials and placed under rabbinic guidance.
The name connects the biblical meaning of Mount Sinai with the traditional Jewish burial practice carried out here under rabbinic supervision. Families come to visit their departed on high holidays and continue the tradition of placing small stones on gravestones.
Pathways lead through different sections, each with its own layout and memorials. Visitors should wear comfortable shoes, as some sections sit on hillsides and the grounds offer little shade on warm days.
The Heritage Mosaic in the Gardens of Heritage, dedicated in September 1984, measures 145 by 30 feet (44.2 by 9.1 meters) and holds more than 2.5 million hand-cut Venetian glass pieces. Its panorama starts with the 1654 arrival of Jews in Nieuw Amsterdam and runs to the founding of the State of Israel. Elsewhere in the park, Bernard Zakheim's Warsaw Ghetto Memorial uses six burnt-wood figures for the six million murdered.
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