[1] The British disallowed the building of a Synagogue to please the local Roman Catholic church, even if Jewish presence in Malta was of large numbers.

[2] The proximity of the Jewish and Turkish cemeteries led Lieutenant-Governor Sir Harry Luke to state that the area "is the only place in the world where Arabs and Jews lie peacefully together",[1] albeit Turks are not actually Arabs – he may have interchangeably used it to mean Muslims.

[3] The cemetery contains the graves of people from Poland, Spain, Russia, Hungary, Australia, China and other European countries.

[4] The Jewish Cemetery is built in a neoclassical style[1] – one significant architectural feature is its main gate, which has decorations which are similar to Torah finials.

[1] Below the pediment, there is an Italian-language inscription indicating that the government granted the cemetery to the Jewish community in a public act on 8 December 1879.