Uptown Manhattan Trinity Cemetery & Mausoleum

Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, located uptown in Hamilton Heights, offers the only active community mausoleum in Manhattan. Affordable above-ground interment and memorial options are currently available for people of all faiths.

The beautiful grounds of the cemetery and the mausoleum offer a peaceful place to visit and honor loved ones who have passed. Located uptown, near the border of Hamilton Heights and Washington Heights on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the cemetery is easy to visit by subway, bus, or car. Learn more about the cemetery and mausoleum, plan your visit, check out our FAQ, contact us.

The Trinity Church Wall Street campus also includes two other places of historical burial, not to be confused with the uptown cemetery—the Trinity Church churchyard and the St. Paul's Chapel churchyard in downtown Manhattan. Alexander Hamilton, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Angelica Schuyler Church, Hercules Mulligan, and Philip Hamilton are buried in the downtown Trinity Churchyard at Broadway and Wall Street along with other notable people from New York City's history. The Trinity Church and St. Paul's Chapel churchyards are not active places of burial.

Our interment options (all above-ground) include:

Niches for cremated remains
Crypts for casketed remains
Communal interment and memorial for cremated remains
Cenotaphs

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Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum is a place rich with history. Learn more about the uptown cemetery's connections to Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, Eliza Jumel, John Jacob Astor IV, Clement Clarke Moore, Benjamin Moore, and John James Audubon. Dating back to 1842, the cemetery and mausoleum are still active, continuing to serve our community today.

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One of the historic sculptures at the Cemetery & Mausoleum. This one is a hexagonal structure with six Corinthian columns topped with a life-sized, stone figure of a woman — The historic cemetery provides a timeless memorial honoring many influential New Yorkers.

View of headstones and flowering trees — Trinity Cemetery and Mausoleum was founded in 1842, after burials could no longer be performed at Trinity’s cemeteries in Lower Manhattan.

View of the main building, part of the modern community mausoleum complex

Marker noting the site as the location of the Battle of Fort Washington

Man sits on a bench in front of one of the walls of the mausoleum — Today, Trinity Cemetery and Mausoleum offers families a place for quiet reflection and remembrance in Manhattan.

The mausoleum in spring, with purple flowers.

25-foot Celtic cross marking the location of John James Audubon’s burial vault — Audubon’s estate, Minnie’s Land, was just north of the cemetery at what is now known as Audubon Terrace.

The Audubon Garden section of the community mausoleum offers crypts and niches.

A few of the Heritage Roses at the Cemetery, blush colored — Center of the Heritage Rose District of New York City

A stone garden marker engraved with a quote from Salomon 3:1, "The souls of the righteous are in the hand of god." — Trinity Cemetery and Mausoleum provides a peaceful and quiet setting for remembering, honoring, and memorializing loved ones of all faiths in Manhattan.

View of six glass niches — Glass niches can be personalized with a nameplate and two other items.

View of Community Crypts — Community crypts have spaces to place between four and eight caskets.

Tombstone with a bridge in the background.

Coping with Grief and Living with Loss

While making burial and funeral arrangements, and when the funeral gatherings are over, you may need extra help in coping with your grief and living with your loss. We offer the following to support and guide you.

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