List Of Cemeteries In Estonia
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List Of Cemeteries In Estonia
This is a list of cemeteries in Estonia. Harju County Tallinn *St. Barbara's Cemetery (14th century – 1710) * Hiiu-Rahu Cemetery (est. 1919) *St John's Almshouse Cemetery * Kalamaja Cemetery *Kopli Cemetery * Liiva Cemetery *Maarjamäe German military Cemetery *Metsakalmistu *Mõigu Cemetery *Pärnamäe Cemetery (est. 1963) *Pirita new Cemetery (est. 1898) *Pirita old Cemetery (est. 1436) *Pirita German war prisoners' Cemetery (1944–1950) *Rahumäe Cemetery (est. 1903) **Jewish Cemetery (est. 1911) **Firemen's Cemetery (est. 1927) *Siselinna Cemetery ** Alexander Nevsky Cemetery (est. 1775) **Old Charles' Cemetery (est. 1864) **Military Cemetery (est. 1887) **Polish Catholic Cemetery (1844 – demolished 1950s) **Old Jewish Cemetery (18th century – demolished 1963) **Muslim Cemetery (18th century – demolished 1950s?) **Cholera Cemetery (18th century) Ida-Viru County *Siivertsi Cemetery Järva County Paide * Reopalu Cemetery *Sillaotsa Cemetery Lääne County Haapsalu *M ...
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Cemetery
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term ''graveyard'' is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard. The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an "above-ground grave" (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, columbarium, niche, or other edifice. In Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries. These ceremonies or rites of passage differ according to cultural practices and religious beliefs. Modern cemeteries often include crematoria, and some grounds previously used for both, continue as crematoria as a principal use long after the interment ...
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Lists Of Cemeteries
These lists of cemeteries compile notable cemeteries, mausolea, and other places people are buried worldwide. Reasons for notability include their design, their history, and their interments. Lists of cemeteries by country Africa Algeria * Thaalibia Cemetery, Casbah of Algiers * St. Eugene Cemetery, Algiers * Sidi Garidi Cemetery, Kouba * Sidi M'hamed Bou Qobrine Cemetery, Belouizdad * El Kettar Cemetery, Oued Koriche Egypt *Beni Hasan *City of the Dead (Cairo) *Deir El Bersha * El Bagawat *El Hawawish *Fagg El Gamous * Gabbari necropolis *Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery *Heliopolis War Cemetery *Meir, Egypt *Rifeh *El Sheikh Sa'id *Tell El Kebir *Umm El Qa'ab Kenya Morocco *Bab Aghmat cemetery * Bab Ftouh cemetery *Bab Mahrouk cemetery *Ben M'Sik European Cemetery *Chellah – archeological site and necropolis *Jewish Cemetery of Marrakech * Jewish Cemetery in Fez *Marinid Tombs *Saadian Tombs Nigeria * Ibadan Military Cemetery * Ikoyi Cemetery * Port Harcourt C ...
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Raadi Cemetery
The Raadi cemetery, ( et, Raadi kalmistu) is the oldest and largest burial ground in Tartu, Estonia, dating back to 1773. Many prominent historical figures are buried there. It is also the largest Baltic German cemetery in Estonia after the destruction of Kopli cemetery in Tallinn. Until 1841, it was the only cemetery in the town. The cemetery currently includes several smaller graveyard sections, the oldest of which date back to 1773. Origins, 1771–1773 Between 1771 and 1772, Russian empress Catherine the Great, issued an edict which decreed that from that point on no-one who died (regardless of their social standing or class origins) was to be buried in a church crypt or churchyard; all burials were to take place in the new cemeteries to be built throughout the entire Russian empire, which were to be located outside town boundaries. These measures were intended to overcome the congestion of urban church crypts and graveyards, and were prompted by a number of outbrea ...
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Kudjape Cemetery
Kudjape is a small borough ( et, alevik) in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County, in northeastern Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a .... As of 2011 Census, the settlement's population was 574. References Boroughs and small boroughs in Estonia {{Saare-geo-stub ...
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Pärnu Alevi Cemetery
Pärnu Alevi Cemetery ( et, Pärnu Alevi kalmistu) is a cemetery in Pärnu, Estonia. The cemetery was established in 1773. Notable burials * Amandus Heinrich Adamson, Estonian sculptor and painter * Johann Heinrich Rosenplänter Johann Heinrich Rosenplänter (12 July/23 July 1782 in Valmiera – 15 April/27 April 1846 in Pärnu) was a Baltic German linguist and Estophile. He edited one of the first scientific journals on the Estonian language Estonian ( ) is a Finni ..., Baltic German linguist and Estophile References

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