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Photographs · 12 October 2025

An older burial ground beneath the sanctuary

Historic Churches of New Haven and West Haven

Headstones and table tombs in the crypt beneath Center Church, photographed in October 2025.

Evidence, credit & reuse: CC BY-SA4.0 Center Church crypt,250 Temple Street, New Haven, Connecticut. Not Saint Bernard Cemetery and not West Cemetery. Reused existing archive input; Proportional resize to 1600 pixels wide and JPEG recompression. No generated or removed content. Additional proportional display optimization.

Source: Marty Aligata / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for display.

An older burial ground beneath the sanctuary
Marty Aligata / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for display.. 12 October 2025. Open the full image to inspect small print.

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Silent Grounds Collective, Historic Churches of New Haven and West Haven, SGC-NHCH-031, NHCH-002, “An older burial ground beneath the sanctuary.” Source: Marty Aligata / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Resized for display.. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crypt_beneath_Center_Church_on_the_Green,_New_Haven,_CT_(October_2025).jpg. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.

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