List of famous cemeteries |
This is a list of famous cemeteries, mausoleums and other
places people are buried, world-wide. Please add as needed.
- Rookwood Cemetery, (Sydney) - at over 280ha, reputedly the largest burial site in the Southern Hemisphere, first used in 1867.
- Toowong Cemetery,
Brisbane - the oldest and largest Brisbane cemetery, was originally utilised by the
earliest colonists. Resting place of author Steele Rudd.
- Waverly Cemetery (Sydney) - picturesque coastal site, many local historical figures.
- Camp Hill Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia is
the burial site for Joseph Howe, Robert Stanfield, Abraham Gesner, amongst
others.
- Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia -
the RMS Titanic cemetery.
- Ancient Tombs at Longtou
Mountain
- Bukit China in Malacca is the largest (25 ha) Chinese cemetery outside Mainland China, with graves that date back to the Ming
dynasty.
- Cemetery of Zhaojun, Inner Mongolia
- Mawangdui at Changsha, Hunan
- Mausoleum of the First Qin
Emperor, Xi'an
- Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, Inner Mongolia
- Mausoleum
of Mao Zedong, Beijing
- Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum in
Hong Kong - earliest funeral architecture in Hong Kong
- Shisanling at Beijing - the
thirteen imperial mausoleums of Ming Dynasty
- Sun Yat-sen
Mausoleum, Nanjing
- Tomb of Marquis
Yi near Wuhan in Hubei province - probably
best preserved funeral architecture of the Warring States
Period
- Tomb at Yinque at
Linyi County, Shandong province
- Zhao Mausoleum, Jiuzong mountain, Shaanxi province
- Roskilde cathedral, the burial place for most Danish kings and queens
- Cimetière de Bagneux, Paris - burial place for
Jean Vigo, Gribouille, Alfred Jarry and others.
- Catacombs of Paris, millions of remains in caves and
tunnels under the city of Paris.
- Les Invalides, Paris - war heroes including Napoleon
- Cimetière des Gonards, Versailles, burial place for Edith Wharton,
Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte and others.
- Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris - resting place
of Emile Zola, Edgar Degas,
Georges Feydeau, other artists and writers.
- Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris - serves
the great artistic quarter of Montparnasse, including the graves of
Charles Baudelaire, Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean
Seberg, Serge Gainsbourg and Man Ray. Pierre Laval and Porfirio Diaz are also buried here.
- Cimetière de Passy, Paris - Claude Debussy, Edouard
Manet.
- The Panthéon, Paris - France's most honored, including Voltaire, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau.
- Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris - resting place of artists,
writers (including Oscar Wilde), and Jim Morrison. Many French Holocaust victims are buried
there.
- Saint Denis Basilica, Paris - burial site for French
Royalty.
- Cimetière de Saint-Ouen, Paris - where Joan of Arc was led for the public renunciation of her sins. Some of those buried
here are the painters Suzanne Valadon, Jules Pascin, and tennis star, Suzanne Lenglen.
- Cimetière Saint-Vincent, a small cemetery in
the Montmartre Quarter of Paris contains the graves of such notables as
Arthur Honegger, Marcel Carné, Maurice Utrillo and others.
- Saint Remi
Basilica, Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France
- World War II Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial,
Collville-sur-Mer - honors American soldiers who died during operations in Europe during World War II
- Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde,
Berlin
- Kerameikon - ancient cemetery in Athens
- Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow - many famous Russians and
citizens of the former Soviet Union buried here including Nikita
Khrushchev, the writer Anton Chekhov, and composers Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich.
- Vagankovskoye Cemetery, Moscow, Russia is the burial site for Inga Artamonova, Igor Talkov, Sergei Yesenin and others.
- Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, St. Petersburg, Russia. Among those interred here is author
Fyodor Dostoevsky, and composers Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and César Cui.
- Bunhill Fields, London, England - nonconformist resting place of
William Blake, Daniel
Defoe.
- Ford Park Cemetery,
Plymouth, England
- Golders Green Crematorium, Golders Green, London, England
- Highgate Cemetery, London - the tomb of Karl Marx, topped with a huge bronze bust, is
here; Highgate is notable for its "Egyptian catacombs", where John
Galsworthy, George Eliot, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti were buried.
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, oldest English
cemetery of its type still in operation, many elaborate Victorian
mausoleums, including those of William Makepeace
Thackeray and Anthony Trollope.
- St Botolph
Aldersgate, London
- St Margarets,
London
- St Paul's Cathedral, London
- Victoria Gate, Hyde Park
- Westminster Abbey, London
See : List of United States
cemeteries
- Maidich
National Cemetery - cemetery established after French occupation ended in 1954 as a place of worship for heroes of the people. Those buried here include statesmen, writers,
poets, and others who have close ties to Vietnam's current government.
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