Ohel (Chabad-Lubavitch)
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The Ohel is an ohel in Cambria Heights, Queens, New York City, where Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson and his father-in-law Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, the two most recent rebbes of the Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty, are buried. Both Jews and non-Jews visit The Ohel for prayer, and approximately 50,000 people make an annual pilgrimage there on the anniversary of Schneerson's death.
Interior of the Ohel. The grave of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn is at right; that of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson is at left
Exterior of the Ohel
Welcome center
Children praying
Ohel (grave)
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Ohel is a structure built around a Jewish grave as a sign of prominence of the deceased. Ohelim cover the graves of some Hasidic Rebbes, important rabbis, tzadikim, prominent Jewish community leaders, and biblical figures. Typically a small masonry building, an ohel may include room for visitors to pray, meditate, and light candles in honor of the deceased.
The ohel of the "Seer of Lublin" on the Old Jewish Cemetery in Lublin
![Wooden ohel in Horodyszcze (now Haradzishcha [be], Belarus)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Arthur_levy011-Gorodischtsche.jpg/500px-Arthur_levy011-Gorodischtsche.jpg)
Wooden ohel in Horodyszcze (now Haradzishcha [be], Belarus)
Ohel at the Jewish cemetery of Ożarów, Poland
The graves of Avraham Mordechai Alter (right) and his son, Pinchas Menachem Alter (left) in an ohel adjacent to the Sfas Emes Yeshiva in downtown Jerusalem