It is located in the city's Cemetery Belt, bisected by the border between Brooklyn and Queens.

In 1882, Calvert Vaux was commissioned to design a small, red brick Metaher house or place of purification and pre-burial eulogies, near the entrance to the Shearith Israel section, and also designed its gates.

It is the only religious building that Vaux, the co-designer of Central Park, is known to have designed.

[2] Many mausoleum windows are made with Tiffany stained glass and LaFarge bronze doors.

[3] The burial ground contains many examples of architecture and funerary art.