Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

A cemetery (also called a graveyard, churchyard or kirkyard) is a place (usually an enclosed area of land) in which dead bodies are buried. The term cemetery implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are the place where the final ceremonies of death are observed. These ceremonies or rites differ according to cultural practice and religious belief. Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York File links The following pages link to this file: Cemetery Green-Wood Cemetery User talk:TheoClarke ... Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York File links The following pages link to this file: Cemetery Green-Wood Cemetery User talk:TheoClarke ... The Chapel at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn NY Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, several blocks west of Prospect Park. ... For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... This page deals with the cessation of life. ... Underwater funeral in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea from an edition with drawings by Alphonse de Neuville and Edouard Riou. ... A rite is an established, ceremonious, usually religious act. ... The word culture comes from the Latin root colere (to inhabit, to cultivate, or to honor). ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...

General

Castle Ashby Graveyard Northamptonshire

From about the 7th, European burial was under the control of the church and on consecrated church ground. Practices varied but, in continental Europe, bodies were usually buried in a mass grave until they had decomposed. The bones were then exhumed and stored in ossuaries either along the arcaded bounding walls of the cemetery or within the church under floor slabs and behind walls. Download high resolution version (1540x2052, 893 KB)Castle Ashby Graveyard Picture taken by R Neil Marshman 12 March 2005 (c) . The storm clouds in the background set off the sunlight on the gravestones well Picture of the day This picture was featured on Wikipedia as the Picture of the day... Download high resolution version (1540x2052, 893 KB)Castle Ashby Graveyard Picture taken by R Neil Marshman 12 March 2005 (c) . The storm clouds in the background set off the sunlight on the gravestones well Picture of the day This picture was featured on Wikipedia as the Picture of the day... // Events Islam starts in Arabia, the Quran is written, and Syria, Iraq, Persia, North Africa and Central Asia convert to Islam. ... This article is about the continent. ... A church building (or simply church) is a building used in Christian worship. ... To consecrate an inaminate object is to dedicate it in a ritual to a special purpose, usually religious. ... A mass grave is a grave containing more than one human corpse. ... Decomposition is the reduction of bodies and other formerly living organisms into simpler forms of matter; and most particularly to the fate of the body, after death. ... By other animals Humans are not the only species to bury their dead. ... Arcade can mean several things: Arcade (architecture) - A passage or walkway, often including retailers. ...

The habit of burying corpses in land enclosed within the city walls had a negative impact on health. As a consequence, some cemeteries were moved away from heavily populated areas. As an example, in the late 18th century, skeletons exhumed from major Paris cemeteries were moved into ossuaries in the Catacombs, and burials were prohibited in inner-city locations. (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... In biology, the skeleton or skeletal system is the biological system providing support in living organisms. ... Graves at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York A cemetery is a place (usually an enclosed area of land) in which dead bodies are buried. ... Crypt of the Sepulchral Lamp in the Catacombs of Paris. ...

Cemetery company and municipally owned cemeteries, independent from churches and their churchyards, date largely from the early 19th century, certainly in their landscaped or garden cemetery form, although the cemetery reform movement began c. 1740and there were a small number of earlier extra-mural burial grounds. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Events May 31 - Friedrich II comes to power in Prussia upon the death of his father, Friedrich Wilhelm I. October 20 - Maria Theresia of Austria inherits the Habsburg hereditary dominions (Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and present-day Belgium). ...

The earliest of the spacious landscaped-style cemeteries is Père Lachaise in Paris. This embodied the idea of state, rather than church, controlled burial; a concept that spread through Europe with the Napoleonic invasions, and sometimes became adapted leading to the opening of cemeteries by private companies. The shift to municipal cemeteries or those establishe dby private companies was usually accompanied by the establishing of spacious, landscaped, burial grounds outside of the city limits. Looking down the hill at the Père-Lachaise cemetery The Cimetière du Père-Lachaise is the largest cemetery in Paris, and one of the most famous cemeteries in the world. ... A state is an organized political community occupying a definite territory, having an organized government, and possessing internal and external sovereignty. ... For other uses, see Napoleon (disambiguation). ...

Cemeteries are usually a respected area, and often include churches or other religious buildings (chapels); and sometimes a crematorium for the burning (cremation) of the dead. The violation of the graves or buildings is usually considered a very serious crime and punishments are often severe. A church building (or simply church) is a building used in Christian worship. ... The crematorium at Haycombe Cemetery, Bath, England. ...

The style of cemeteries varies greatly internationally. For example, in the USA and many European countries modern cemeteries usually have many tombstones placed on open spaces. In Russia, tombstones are usually placed in small fenced family lots. (This was once common practice in American cemeteries as well, and such fenced family plots are still visible in some older American cemeteries.)

Cemeteries in cities take a lot of valuable urban space, which could become a problem, especially in older cities. As historic cemeteries begin to reach their capacity for full burials, alternative memorialization, such as collective memorials for cremated individuals, is becoming more common. Different cultures have different attitudes to destruction of cemeteries and use of the land for construction. In some countries (examples?) it is considered normal to destroy the graves, while in others the graves are traditionally respected for a century or more. In many cases, after a suitable period of time has elapsed the headstones are removed and the now former cemetery is converted to a recreational park or construction site.

Ancient cemeteries

Many places have been found where ancient people buried their dead. These places could be an organised necropolis or they could be simple areas with highly symbolic elements around (like the Tomb of Giants in Sardinia). The Egyptian pyramids were tombs. A necropolis (plural: necropolises or necropoleis) is a cemetery or burying-place, literally a city of the dead. Apart from the occasional application of the word to modern cemeteries outside large towns, the term is chiefly used of burial grounds near the sites of the centers of ancient civilizations. ... Sardinia (Sardigna, Sardinna or Sardinnia in the Sardinian language, Sardegna in Italian, Sardenya in Catalan), is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (Sicily is the largest), between Italy, Spain and Tunisia, south of Corsica. ... For other versions including architectural Pyramids, see Pyramid (disambiguation). ...

Cimetière des Chiens

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Cemeteries for pets

The Cimetière des Chiens in Asnières-sur-Seine in Paris, is an elaborate, sculpted pet cemetery believed to be the first zoological necropolis in the world. Rin Tin Tin, the famous dog from Hollywood films, is buried here. The Cimetière des Chiens opened in 1899 at 4 pont de Clichy on Ile des Ravageurs in Asnières-sur-Seine, ÃŽle-de-France, France and is believed to be the first zoological necropolis in the world. ... Asnières-sur-Seine (or Asnières which was its official name until 1968. ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ... Rin Tin Tin Rin Tin Tin (often billed as Rin-Tin-Tin in the 1920s and 1930s) was the name given to several German Shepherds of film and television. ... ...

Cemeteries and superstition

Nuremberg, Johanniskirchhof

In many countries, cemeteries are objects of superstition and legend; they are sometimes used (usually at night-time) for black magic ceremonies or similar clandestine happenings. In Haiti the traditional belief regarding zombies as practiced under Voudun religion is connected with burial rituals. It is believed that the zombified individual is buried alive in a coffin in a shallow grave after being given a dosage of tetrodotoxin from the puffer fish to slow his heart so he appears dead even to medical practitioners. After all the burial ceremonies are completed the zombie victim is then dug up and taken into servitude, usually as a punishment for some crime he committed. Some Haitians deny that these practices exist and that these kinds of voodoo practices are pure superstition. Download high resolution version (600x800, 109 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (600x800, 109 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Hl. ... A superstition is an irrational or invalid belief about the relation between certain actions (often behaviors) and other actions that is not true. ... A legend (Latin, legenda, things to be read) is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history and to possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude. ... Black magic is the branch of magic used to perform evil acts or draw on malevolent powers. ... A zombie, at twilight, in a sugarcane field in Haiti A zombie is traditionally an undead person in the Caribbean spiritual belief system of voodoo. ... The term Voodoo (Vodun in Benin; also Vodou or other phonetically equivalent spellings in Haiti; Vudu in the Dominican Republic) is applied to the branches of a West African ancestor-based religious tradition with primary roots among the Fon-Ewe peoples of West Africa, in the country now known as... Tetrodotoxin (anhydrotetrodotoxin 4-epitetrodotoxin, tetrodonic acid, TTX) is a potent neurotoxin, which blocks the nerve function in nerves by binding to the pore of voltage-gated sodium channel in nerve cell membranes. ... Genera Amblyrhynchotes Arothron Auriglobus Canthigaster Carinotetraodon Chelonodon Colomesus Contusus Ephippion Feroxodon Fugu Gastrophysus Javichthys Lagocephalus Liosaccus Marilyna Monotretus Omegaphora Pelagocephalus Polyspina Reicheltia Sphoeroides Takifugu Tetractenos Tetraodon Torquigener Tylerius Xenopterus The pufferfish, also called blowfish, swellfish, balloonfish are fish making up the family Tetraodontidae, within the order Tetraodontiformes. ...

See also

• Elephant's graveyard
• List of cemeteries
• List of cemeteries in the United States
• Resurrectionists
• Grave robbing

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References

A Japanese graveyard. The thin wooden tablets behind the graves show the Buddhist name the deceased receives after death.

• Colvin, Howard. Architecture and the After-Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

• Curl, James Stevens. Death and Architecture. Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2002.

• Etlin, Richard A. The Architecture of Death: the transformation of the cemetery in eighteenth-century Paris. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984.

• Grossman, Janet Burnett. Greek Funerary Sculpture. Catalogue of the Collection at the Getty Villa. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001.

• Worpole, Ken. Last Landscapes: the architecture of the cemetery in the West, Reaktion Books, London, 2003

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External links

• London Cemetery Project: 130 cemeteries with high quality photos.
• Scottish Cemetery Records
• Irish Cemetery Records
• Saving Graves - A collaborative effort of cemetery preservation advocates working to increase public awareness and activism in preserving, protecting and restoring endangered and forgotten cemeteries worldwide.
• UK Graves - The purpose of UK Graves is to tell you about interesting and attractive graveyards and cemeteries in the south of England, with particular reference to photography. There are many photographs on the site, both of graveyards and of individual graves.
• Online Cemetery, Burial & Graves Indexes (USA) - A directory of web based indexes for cemeteries.
• Find-a-Grave - Online virtual cemetery with photos, biographies, and virtual flowers. Includes index of famous and historical figures' burial information and grave images.
• Grave Addiction - Contains photos of many cemeteries throughout the United States.
• A Very Grave Matter - Contains many photos from cemeteries from the east coast of the United States.
• graveyards.com - Contains listings and photographs of graveyards in Chicago and other nearby locations.
• Internment.net - Contains Millions of Marker Transcripts from Thousands of Cemeteries around the world.
• Legacy.com
• English Cemetery, Florence, catalogue of tombs
• The Graveyards of Omaha, Nebraska