Turku Cemetery

Local nameTurun hautausmaa
LocationTurku, Finland

Turku Cemetery is a cemetery inaugurated in 1807 and located in Vasaramäki on the south-eastern outskirts of the city of Turku.

The drawings of the cemetery has been prepared by the architect Charles Bassi. In the cemetery there are two chapels complexes. The Resurrection Chapel or Ylösnousemuskappeli/Uppståndelsekapellet was completed in 1941 by architect Erik Bryggman. The Heliga Korsets chapel and crematorium is inaugurated in 1967 by architect Pekka Pitkänen.The first buried person in the cemetery was William Archibald Cramp, who died in 1806 on his way from St. Petersburg to Turku.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turku_Cemetery

Address 20720, Finland

Coordinates 60°25'55.492" N 22°18'32.047" E

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