Cemetery

A cemetery or graveyard is a place where the remains of deceased people are buried or otherwise interred. The word cemetery (from Greek κοιμητήριον, "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground. The older term graveyard is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but primarily referred 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 areas have been filled.

Definition

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a cemetery as a "burial-ground generally; now esp. a large public park or ground laid out expressly for the interment of the dead, and not being the ‘yard’ of any church. (Cemetery c)" and specifies that the term "...originally applied to the Roman underground cemeteries or catacombs " Cemeteries are normally distinct from churchyards, which are typically consecrated according to one denomination and are attached directly to a single place of worship.

Cemetery (disambiguation)

A cemetery is land reserved for human or animal (pet) remains.

Cemetery may also refer to:

  • Cemetery (album), an album by Deja Voodoo
  • "Cemetery" (Silverchair song), 1997
  • "Cemetery" (Charlie Simpson song), 2011
  • Cemetary (band), a Swedish metal band
  • Cemetery Reach, a reach of the Brisbane River in Queensland, Australia
  • List of cemeteries in China

    This is a list of cemeteries in the People's Republic of China. Many othersparticularly in central urban areaswere destroyed during the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s, which regularized the use of cremation even in the cases of religious minorities such as the Hui. Since the Opening-Up Policy began in the 1980s, mortuary sites have been reopened in more out-lying areas, run as commercial operations.

  • Cemetery of Confucius, Shandong
  • Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, Beijing
  • National Revolutionary Army Memorial Cemetery ("Hope Valley Park"), Jiangsu
  • Astana Cemetery, Xinjiang
  • Cemetery of Zhaojun, Inner Mongolia
  • Mawangdui at Changsha, Hunan
  • Foochow Mission Cemetery, Fuzhou
  • 44 at present in Shanghai, including the Longhua Martyrs' Memorial and the Wanguo Gumou housing the remains of Soong Ching-ling
  • See also

  • List of cemeteries in Hong Kong
  • List of cemeteries in Macau
  • References

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    Cemetery

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