furnesque: Mount Sinai Cemetery Mortuary ChapelPhiladelphia, PA1891-1892 The Mount Sinai Cemete

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Mount Sinai Cemetery Mortuary Chapel
Philadelphia, PA
1891-1892

The Mount Sinai Cemetery Mortuary Chapel in the Frankford section of Philadelphia was designed by Frank Furness of Furness, Evans & Co. in 1891. This project for the Jewish Mount Sinai Cemetery came about through Furness’s earlier work on the Rodef Shalom Synagogue(here,here, and here). 

FromPhiladelphia Preserved by Richard Webster:

N.E. corner Bridge and Cottage Sts. Rock-faced granite and brick with pecked and carved red terra cotta trim, approx 42’ (three-bay front) x 60’, one story, intersecting hipped and gable red tile roofs with hipped cross-gables and copper cornice, horseshoe-arch windows, semihexagonal side bay; three-aisle plan, exposed wooden trusses, rear vault.

The interiors, windows, chimneys, and finials have been altered since construction of the chapel in 1892.