Jewish Northern Cemetery (Copenhagen)

The Jewish Northern Cemetery in Nørrebro was formerly the principal Jewish cemetery in Copenhagen, Denmark.

It has an area of 13,500 square metres and contains some 5,500 burials.

The Jewish congregation in Copenhagen purchased a 900 square metre site outside the city for use as a burial site in the early 1690s.

[1] The brick wall which today surrounds the cemetery on three sides, along Møllegade, Guldbergsgade and Birkegade, was built in 1873 to a design by Vilhelm Tvede.

[2] The Jewish Northern Cemetery is the subject of an instrumental song, "The Jewish Cemetery on Møllegade", by Jóhann Jóhannsson.

Buildings facing the cemetery