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Living Memorials: The Future of Gravestones

The internet has obviously changed the world. We can access basically anything by the press of our finger; our favorite music, profiles of our closest friends, photographs, and home videos. Gravestone barcodes have become popular over the last several years, providing a modern way to remember those we’ve lost. On a traditional memorial monument is […]

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The Evolution of Headstone Decor

From the traditional to the contemporary. The Beginning The evolution of simple grave marker to elaborately designed headstone can be associated with early Roman and Celtic cultures. Artfully designed headstones depicted attributes and experiences of the individuals laid to rest, detailing their lives. As religious faith became a center of people’s day-to-day lives, headstones began […]

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The Best Choice For A Long Lasting Headstone

At St. Charles Monuments, Long Island’s leading headstone and monument company, we want to make sure you choose the headstone that fits your needs and desires best. That means we will work with all of your ideas: be it design, material choice, inscription requests, and renovations; our services are expansive at St. Charles. But what […]

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History of Memorials & Early Grave Markers

At St. Charles Monuments, we create beautiful headstones and monuments for families and communities. We are Long Island’s first class choice when it comes to a custom memorial company. In history, however, people have not always marked their loved one’s graves with headstones and memorials at all. The history of grave markers is rich and […]

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How to Arrange a Jewish Memorial Service

At St. Charles Monuments we pride ourselves on working closely with you every step of the way, helping you through all aspects of Jewish memorial decision making and the creation of custom headstones on Long Island. From design to cemetery regulations, installation, unveiling, cleaning and repairs—we’re there for you. There is so much to take […]

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Placing A Stone On A Loved One’s Grave

At St. Charles Monuments we provide Long Islanders with top-of-the-line, custom, headstones by combining excellent customer service with the beautiful craftsmanship of our upright cemetery monuments. St. Charles Monuments has been serving the Jewish community for over 65 years and are especially sensitive to the practices of this faithful community. We understand what a loss […]

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The Jewish Faith: Stages of Mourning

We at St. Charles Monuments have a long history of working with the Jewish community to provide appropriate headstones and monuments, and create beautiful, respectful, inscriptions and drawings that adhere to Jewish customs. We are able to create monuments for any cemetery and provide for the memorial’s future needs of maintenance and renovation. There are […]

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Modern Headstone Symbolism in Flight and Flowers

  St. Charles Monuments provides upright monuments and memorials for all cemeteries across Long Island and the greater New York area. Whether religious or sentimental, grave art has been popular for thousands of years, marking the gravesites of their deceased through art as a way to acknowledge their life and passing. When there is so […]

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For My Bashert: A Double Jewish Headstone

The marriage of two people who are truly in love is destined to be– called out by God himself when the child is born. For those lucky enough to find their bashert in the world, it is wonderful to know that not only can you be committed within life but also within your eternal resting […]

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History of Memorial Day

At St. Charles Monuments of Long Island, New York, we have created many headstones honoring soldiers who have lost their lives during war. We’ve also created civic memorials to honor those who have served in the military. In honor of this holiday we’d like to provide a brief history on how it all started.   […]

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TESTIMONIALS

What people say about us

“Thank you Marcus. We drove by the monument yesterday afternoon. My husband and I were very pleased. Thank you for giving us a gift of comfort and peace.”

Mary Amber

“Thank you so much. It has been a comforting and pleasant experience working with St. Charles Monuments. The memorial set looks great.””

Pam Carter

“The headstone is beautiful. They did a fantastic job. Again my family and I thank you for all your help with suggestions and with the arrangements.”

Laura Leddy

“My family and I visited my husband’s grave today. We were very pleased with the results. It looks very nice. Thank you.””

Mrs. Guginsky

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 for all Cemeteries in NY & NJ
 for all Cemeteries in NY & NJ
 for all Cemeteries in NY & NJ