Old orthodox cemetery of Csörsz street (Budapest)

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"Orthodox cemetery in Buda, where apparently most of the Orthodox of Budapest were buried from about 1860/70 until the new Orthodox cemetery on Granatos utca was opened about 1922. This cemetery is located at XII district, Csorsz utca, 55 a steep and narrow street in a residential area of Buda. According to the book "Jewish Budapest" 1999 Central European University Press, this cemetery is what remains of a much larger cemetery given by the municipality to the Jewish community in the 1880s. The first funeral was held in 1890. The cemetery was gradually liquidated when the buildings in lower Csorsz utca were erected and what we see now is a small remainder of this once large cemetery. It may be that some graves from the former cemetery were transferred. The cemetery is about the size of a European apartment building lot, flanked on one side by a small school and on the other side by an apartment block. There is a stone wall in front, so that the cemetery is not recognizable driving by, only when one stands close to the wall.
A flight of steps leads down to the gate and a small house where some of the records are kept. The cemetery is divided in two by a cement walk; men are buried on the right and women on the left. Women's graves are often opposite those of their husbands. There are about six to eight rows on each side of the walk. Many of the stones are worn out by old age and colors are faded. There is high grass in many areas; and some stones are covered with thistles, making it rather difficult to read many of the stones.
This cemetery was in use until about 1921/25, when the new Orthodox cemetery in Granatos utca was opened. However, there have been burials well into the 1940s, probably for families who had family plots or who owned lots. The most imposing stone is that of Rabbi Jacob "Koppel" Reich, who was the principal Orthodox Rabbi in Budapest between 1889 and 1929."

Source:
www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/e-europe/hung-a-l.html#B