It was inaugurated by President Manuel Prado Ugarteche on June 27, 1959, due to the need of the city of Lima to have a new funerary space, since the capacity of the Presbítero Matías Maestro Cemetery had reached its maximum in 1955.

It was erected on the location of the Ancieta Alta farm in front of the Ángel de la Resurrección square, named after a statue placed there in 1877.

The first person buried was the former mayor of La Victoria and councilor of Lima, Juan Luis Uccelli Rainusso, on July 3, 1959.

The entrance doorway of the El Ángel cemetery has a large pictorial mural by the Peruvian artist Fernando de Szyszlo, and a sculpture by Joaquín Roca Rey.

Although the orientation of this pantheon is more of a popular nature, due to the existence in recent decades of private cemeteries located on the outskirts of the city.