Wyuka Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Lincoln, Nebraska .
5-580: In 1890, Lincoln's Bnai Jeshurun Congregation , a Reform congregation , began using a section of Wyuka. Wyuka Cemetery was established in Lincoln, Nebraska, by an act of the Nebraska Legislature in 1869, which sought to provide a cemetery for the state capital city founded two years prior. The trustees rejected the first cemetery site along Salt Creek to the west of Lincoln due to flooding concerns and instead purchased 80 acres of land east of
10-489: The city. Wyuka Cemetery has since expanded to over 140 acres between “O” Street and Vine Street. The iron fence surrounding the cemetery was originally erected around the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus. The Board of Regents authorized the construction of the fence in 1891, and the fence enclosed the original campus until 1925 when it was removed due to safety concerns because fire engines could not pass through
15-613: The corner of Twentieth Street, in Lincoln , Nebraska , in the United States. Founded in 1885, When it was built in 1923–1924, it replaced the old synagogue at 12th and D Streets completed in 1893. The main structure was designed in the Byzantine Revival and Moorish Revival styles by Davis & Wilson , and Meyer G. Gaba, a professor of mathematics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and congregant, designed
20-593: The dome. Inside, the arch was designed by wood-carver Keats Lorenz. The first rabbi was Solomon Elihu Starrels. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 1982. [REDACTED] Media related to South Street Temple (Lincoln, Nebraska) at Wikimedia Commons This article about a property in Nebraska on the National Register of Historic Places
25-401: The width of the gates. Wyuka Cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and is considered a prime example of the rural cemetery form. Temple of Congregation B%27nai Jeshurun Temple of Congregation B'nai Jeshurun , also known as South Street Temple , is an historic Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 2061 South 20th Street, on
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