An Orthodox burial society has given assurances that it has no plans to sell a disused cemetery on a prime site in London and transfer the remains of those buried there to Israel.
The JC understands the London Beth Din wrote to the Western Charitable Foundation last year to express its objections after learning of a proposal to consider selling Fulham Road Cemetery.
Following enquiries from the JC this week, Harold Pasha, chairman of the foundation, said there was “no proposed sale of the cemetery and the trust will be continuing to look after and maintain the Fulham Road Cemetery within the terms of the trust as it does with our other cemeteries.”
The Brompton Cemetery, as it was originally called, opened in 1815 and was closed 70 years later although burials in reserved plots continued until 1910.
