Jewish Cemetery
Home of Peace Cemetery
Colma, California
Home of Peace Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Colma, California at 1299 El Camino Real. Below you will find its address and website, directions, and other Jewish places nearby.
Key Facts
- Type
- Jewish Cemetery
- Founded
- 1889
- Address
- 1299 El Camino Real, Colma, CA
Open in Google Maps → - Website
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About Home of Peace Cemetery
Home of Peace Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery at 1299 El Camino Real in Colma, California, dedicated by Congregation Emanu-El of San Francisco in January 1889. Its twenty landscaped acres at the foot of the San Bruno Mountains offer ground burial and entombment in two mausoleums.
- Dedicated by Congregation Emanu-El in January 1889
- Twenty acres maintained under endowed care
- Indoor mausoleum opened in 1935, with design elements echoing Emanu-El's Lake Street sanctuary
- Later Garden of Peace outdoor mausoleum offers crypts and niches
Jewish cemeteries are places of honor and remembrance, where families come to visit, say Kaddish, and leave a stone on the grave as a sign of remembrance. For plot records, visiting hours, and burial information, contact the cemetery or its associated congregation or burial society directly.
Sources: Jewish Cemeteries of San Francisco. Checked October 2026.
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