Metsakalmistu
Sign in to savethumb|Tallinn Forest Cemetery Chapel, designed by architect Herbert Johanson thumb Metsakalmistu () is a cemetery in the Pirita district of Tallinn.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- cemetery
- Country
- Estonia
- Location
- Kloostrimetsa
- Image
- Kloostrimetsa, Tallinn, Estonia - panoramio (3).jpg
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- Commons category
- Metsakalmistu
- category for people buried here
- Category:Burials at Metsakalmistu (Tallinn)
- native label
- Metsakalmistu
- inception
- 1933-00-00
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thumb|Tallinn Forest Cemetery Chapel, designed by architect Herbert Johanson thumb Metsakalmistu () is a cemetery in the Pirita district of Tallinn.
==History== Metsakalmistu was originally planned to be a public central city cemetery. Eduard Vilde was the first to be buried in 1933. The original area of the cemetery was 24.2 hectares, but it has since expanded to 48.3 hectares.
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