Collection: Temple Adath Israel Cemetery - Louisville
The Temple Cemetery is one of the oldest remaining Jewish cemeteries in Kentucky, spanning across 23 acres of land off Preston Highway, but it didn’t begin there. The first cemetery of Adath Israel was located at Preston and Woodbine Streets, about one mile north of our present cemetery. This was the first Jewish cemetery in the state of Kentucky. In 1955, the graves were moved to the present cemetery due to the completion of Interstate 65, which consumed the older cemetery.
In the mid 1970s, Adath Israel and Brith Sholom merged their cemeteries and renamed it The Temple Cemetery. The two cemeteries have always had common roads, and a clear separation of the two are labeled as sections A (for Adath Israel) and B (for Brith Sholom).
A limestone wall topped by a decorative iron fence stretches the full length of our cemetery on Preston Highway. The entrance to the cemetery is central, with a gatehouse on the south and the chapel on the north, The gate was originally roofed
In the mid 1970s, Adath Israel and Brith Sholom merged their cemeteries and renamed it The Temple Cemetery. The two cemeteries have always had common roads, and a clear separation of the two are labeled as sections A (for Adath Israel) and B (for Brith Sholom).
A limestone wall topped by a decorative iron fence stretches the full length of our cemetery on Preston Highway. The entrance to the cemetery is central, with a gatehouse on the south and the chapel on the north, The gate was originally roofed
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