Sunshine Chapel - San Jose, CA - Cemetery Chapels on Waymarking.com

This is one of the more modern and mundane chapels at the cemetery (compared to the Chapel of Roses) It has both and inside and outdoor area. The front has a small pond with fountains in it. The chapel is design with Chinese influence in its architecture., probably due to the historic Chinese section that's situated next to it. The archecture includes slanting roofs. The Oak Hill Cemetery is San Jose's oldest cemeteries, and dates back to 1847, though the chapels are diffidently not that old. There are over 13,000 internement currently at the cemetery.

About the adjacent Chinese cemetery: "From about 1850 until 1900, Chinese Americans in San José were buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. In 1900, the Oak Hill Improvement Company sold off a one-half acre section to a group of eight Chinese associations for a Chinese cemetery. The transaction agreement mentioned that 306 of the existing buried bodies were “now in fit condition to be disinterred for shipment to China.” These bodies would be removed for return to China. According to Chinese custom, the remains of the deceased must be buried in his family or clan cemetery in his home village. Chinese associations in the United States continued this tradition well into the 20th century. It is unclear whether the Oak Hill burials were actually moved, or how many subsequent burials in the new Chinese cemetery were eventually removed. Oak Hill Memorial Park believes that some 300 graves remain in the Chinese cemetery, but no one has been buried there for several decades." (visit link)

Date of Chapel Construction: 1970s Denomination of Chapel or Cemetery (if applicable): None Active Chapel?: yes Main Construction Material of Chapel: bricks Description of Cemetery added in Long Description: Not listed

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