About Mount Ararat Cemetery
Mount Ararat Cemetery is a jewish cemetery in Lindenhurst, Suffolk County, New York. The grounds sit at about 49 feet above sea level. Wikidata records 30 notable people buried here, including Max Weber, Jule Styne and Tony Roberts. It is recorded in the U.S. Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System as feature 957806. The nearest other listed cemetery is New Montefiore Cemetery, about 0.8 mi to the northeast. The nearest funeral home we know of is Star of David Memorial Chapels Inc in West Babylon, about 0.8 mi away. It is one of 216 cemeteries we list in Suffolk County, and 55 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. The oldest recorded cemetery in Suffolk County dates to 1826. 10 of the 216 listings in Suffolk County have a phone number or website on record.
Notable people buried at Mount Ararat Cemetery
Among them: 7 musicians, 3 actors, 2 artists, 2 basketball players, 2 writers, 1 business leader, 1 inventor or engineer, 1 World War II veteran.
- Max Weber1881-1961American Cubist painter
- Jule Styne1905-1994British-born American songwriter
- Tony Roberts1939-2025American actor
- Max Zaslofsky1925-1985American basketball player and coach
- William Kapell1922-1953American classical pianist and recording artist
- William Levitt1907-1994American real-estate developer widely credited as the father of modern American suburbia
- Mildred Clinton1914-2008American actress
- Ralph Kaplowitz1919-2009American basketball player
- Samuel Gardner1891-1984Russian-American musician
- Lee Pockriss1924-2011American songwriter
- David Frye1933-2011American comedian specializing in comic imitations of famous current political figures, film celebrities, and media figures
- David Morris Kern1909-2013Businessman
Show all 30 notable burials
- Dave Stamper1883-1963American composer and songwriter
- Harry Waton1870-1959Russian-born American rabbi, kabbalist and philosopher
- Irving H. Saypol1905-1977American judge
- Max Kadushin1895-1980Russian-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
- Sidney Gross1921-1969American painter
- Stanley Fink1936-1997American politician
- Sylvia Froos1914-2004American actress and singer
- Arthur Richman1925-2009American sportswriter
- Lev Zetlin1918-1992Israeli-American civil and structural engineer
- David M. Weiss1960-2001American firefighter (FDNY), first responder and victims of the September 11 attacks
- Irma B. Jaffe1917-2018American art historian
- Andrew Steven Zucker1974-2001Victim of the September 11th attacks
- Beatrice Glaser1915-2005Arthur Gellar's mother
- Fredric M. Jablin1952-2004American academic
- Gisela Guggenheim1883-1950
- Henry Gellar1909-1993Arthur Gellar's father
- Leon H. Herbach1923-2011Ph.D. Columbia University 1957
- Paul Lippmann1902-1969Businessman and president of the Flushing Merchants Association in Queens, New York
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Ararat Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
40.71882, -73.39893
What Mount Ararat Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
- New Montefiore Cemetery1180 Wellwood Avenue, West Babylon, NYJewish cemetery0.8 mi
- Trinity CemeteryNorth Lindenhurst, NYChristian cemetery1.1 mi
- Saint Charles CemeteryEast Farmingdale, NYCatholic cemetery1.2 mi
- Cemetery of the ResurrectionEast Farmingdale, NYCemetery1.3 mi
- Saint John's Catholic CemeteryNorth Lindenhurst, NYCatholic cemetery1.4 mi
- Wellwood Cemetery1400 North Wellwood Avenue, West Babylon, NYJewish cemetery1.6 mi
- Beth Moses Cemetery1500 North Wellwood Avenue, West Babylon, NYJewish cemetery1.6 mi
- Green Bunn Burial GroundsCopiague, NYCemetery1.7 mi
- Brewster Burial GroundsCopiague, NYCemetery1.7 mi
- Amityville CemeteryNorth Amityville, NYCemetery1.9 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Ararat Cemetery
- Wellwood Memorials0.3 miMonument dealer · Babylon · (631) 226-1122
- Holy Family Monuments0.5 miMonument dealer · Babylon · (631) 694-4830
- Sprung Monuments0.7 miMonument dealer · West Babylon · (631) 249-5279
- Eternal Memorials0.8 miMonument dealer · West Babylon · (631) 755-1200
- Star of David Memorial Chapels Inc0.8 miFuneral home · West Babylon · (631) 454-9600
- Eden Memorial Jewish Funeral Home and Chapel New York0.8 miFuneral home · West Babylon · (631) 612-6206
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
Frequently asked questions
Where is Mount Ararat Cemetery located?
Mount Ararat Cemetery is at 1165 Route 109, Lindenhurst, NY 11757 in Suffolk County. GPS coordinates: 40.71882, -73.39893.
Is Mount Ararat Cemetery a Jewish cemetery?
Our records list a Jewish affiliation, based on the recorded religion of the cemetery. Burial rules for people outside the congregation vary, so ask the cemetery.
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