Swakopmund, located on the central coast of Namibia in the Namib Desert and due west of the national capital of Windhoek, was founded in 1892 at the main harbor for German South-West Africa.  It developed into an attractive and pedestrian-friendly small city featuring German colonial architecture and taking on a resort-like atmosphere along the Atlantic Ocean.  It has here that a small Jewish community, mostly of German origin, settled during the early and middle twentieth century.  

Although Swakopmund’s Jews never built a proper synagogue, instead holding prayer services in private homes or temporary facilities, a Jewish cemetery was established to the southeast of the center of town.  It is located along Rhode Allee Street near the intersections of Moses Garoeb and Ludertiz Roads, and is positioned not far from the Swakop River (Swakopmund meaning “Mouth of the Swakop”).  The attractive and relatively well-maintained cemetery with mature trees and shrubs served the much larger Christian community as well, with the Jewish section segregated to one corner.  Here a few dozen Jewish neatly-arranged graves can be found near a property wall.  

Although not built exclusively for Jewish use, a cemetery chapel constructed in the Modern aesthetic in the early 1970s became a shared facility with the local Christian community.   A relatively large facility, it features locally-quarried stone walls, bands of windows, and a prominent sloped and splayed roof.