New Mount Sinai Cemetery is a 52-acre (21 ha) cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. Its first burial was in 1853, and its rural cemetery landscape design was laid out in 1907.^[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.^[1] As of the 2005 listing, the cemetery also has a Modern-style community mausoleum, three private mausoleums (Art Deco, Modern, Neo-Classical), and a formal Japanese garden.^[2]

Its listing includes 39 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 2 other contributing structures.^[1] Deemed as contributing resources were:

• the 52-acre (21 ha) rural cemetery itself,
• its traditional, old Jewish graveyard, which are sections A, B, and F of the cemetery,
• the red granite and wrought iron gate,
• the monumental Art Deco entrance gate,
• Greek Revival chapel,
• Queen Anne "House of Comfort" building,
• 37(?) small mausoleums in Greek Revival, Egyptian Revival, Classical Revival, Art Deco, Modern styles.^[2]

The cemetery has a chapel, built in 1905, which is no longer in use. It has a storage vault below to temporarily hold 4 caskets. The building housing the office, built in 1916, was originally a rest house and luncheon spot to accommodate the horse drawn funerals that took an entire day.^[3]

There have been 10,925 people buried in the cemetery as of December 31, 2009. Besides the public mausoleum and single graves, there are 1,441 platted family lots, 40 private mausoleums, 2 memorial mausoleums, and 24 sarcophagi. The newest section of the cemetery, encompassing 5.5 acres of single graves and family lots, opened in the spring of 2008.^[3]

• New Mount Sinai Cemetery, official site
  • New Mount Sinai Cemetery historic tours
• New Mount Sinai Cemetery at Find a Grave