It has over 35,000 plots filled and barely has any room for additional burials, meaning that the cemetery's finances are declining.

It has also been pictured as a Middle Eastern or South Asian locale in media such as the film The Untouchables and the TV series JAG.

In the end, he found an empty field in Compton to make a crypt and announced that it could hold over 1,000 graves.

However, the cemetery was restricted to white people until 1970, when an African-American-owned mortuary company took charge.

[1][2][4] The main building takes influences from Indian, Byzantine, Moorish, Spanish, and high modernist architecture.