We have posted a number of times about the former synagogue in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, and the project to create there a Welsh Jewish Heritage Centre, spearheaded by the Foundation for Jewish Heritage.
Here’s another aspect of the Jewish heritage in Merthyr Tydfil — the Jewish cemetery and chapel, as posted on YouTube by an Urban explorer.
According to the entry on the JCR-UK
The cemetery was established circa 1865 and was extended in 1935. It served the Jewish communities in the locality of Merthyr Tydfil and Dowlais where the mining and iron industries employed Russian, Romanian and Polish Jews in addition to the mercantile families who worked as shop-keepers, jewellers, clothiers etc… in the rapidly growing industrial communities. A small brick prayer house (Ohel) was built circa 1898 and now houses plaques from the former Merthyr Tydfil Synagogue. Click here to view the plaques and memorial boards.
The Welsh Jewish Heritage Centre web site and J-Trails give further information about the cemetery.
See our posts about the Merthyr Tydfil synagogue