View of contemporary mausoleum structures and historic headstones

Uptown Cemetery & Mausoleum

Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, located 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 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 and offers on-site parking. Learn more about the cemetery and mausoleum.

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

Uptown Cemetery and Mausoleum

Our above-ground interment options include:

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

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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Detail of blush colored Heritage Roses

Virtual Tour

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.
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
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.
Chapel of the Resurrection
Chapel of the Resurrection
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.
St. Francis Memorial
St. Francis Memorial
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
View of headstones and flowering trees
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
25-foot Celtic cross marking the location of John James Audubon’s burial vault
The Audubon Garden section of the community mausoleum
A few of the Heritage Roses at the Cemetery, blush colored
A stone garden marker engraved with a quote from Salomon 3:1, "The souls of the righteous are in the hand of god."
Chapel of the Resurrection
View of six glass niches
View of Community Crypts
St. Francis Memorial