Home of Peace Cemetery (Santa Cruz, California)

The Home of Peace Cemetery (also called Beit Shalom) is a Jewish cemetery in Santa Cruz, California.

[1] Consecrated in 1877 by the Hebrew Benevolent Society, it is located on Meder Street – named after Moses Meder, a Mormon businessman who gifted the land to the Society – on the west side of Santa Cruz, near the University of California, Santa Cruz.

[2] Temple Beth-El, the local synagogue in Santa Cruz, operates the cemetery.

It is the oldest Jewish cemetery in Santa Cruz County, California.

[3] This article about a Jewish cemetery is a stub.