cemetery
Sign in to save300px|thumb|Fiume Road Graveyard|Kerepesi Cemetery, Budapest, Hungary thumb|Cemetery in China thumb|Cemetery in Kavala, Greece A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many dead people are buried or otherwise entombed. The word cemetery (from Greek ) 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 churchyar
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A cemetery is a designated place where the remains of deceased people are buried or entombed, sometimes also called a graveyard, burial ground, or memorial park. Cemeteries serve as important spaces for honoring and remembering the dead, with the term originally referring to Roman burial sites.
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39 sectionsContents
- History
- Palaeolithic
- Neolithic
- Middle Ages
- Early Christianity
- Modernity
- Types
- Urban
- Monumental
- Rural or garden
- Lawn cemetery
- Lawn beam
- Natural
- Columbarium wall
- Family
- Arabian tribal
- Terraced
- Miscellaneous
- Online memorials
- Customs and practices
- Flowers
- Stones
- Crosses
- Candles
- Toys
- Contemporary management
- Grave digging
- Cemetery key
- Burial registers
- Land use
- Pressures
- Reuse of graves
- Abandonment
- Superstitions
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
300px|thumb|Fiume Road Graveyard|Kerepesi Cemetery, Budapest, Hungary thumb|Cemetery in China thumb|Cemetery in Kavala, Greece A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many dead people are buried or otherwise entombed. The word cemetery (from Greek ) 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, a columbarium, a niche, or another 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.