Turku Cemetery (Finnish: Turun hautausmaa, Swedish: Åbo begravningsplats) is a cemetery inaugurated in 1807 and located in Vasaramäki on the south-eastern outskirts of the city of Turku.
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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.[1]
The first buried person in the cemetery was William Archibald Cramp, who died in 1806 on his way from St. Petersburg to Turku.[2]
Notable interments
edit- Gabriel Israel Hartman (1776, Lumparland – 1809, Turku)
- William Crichton (1827, Leith – 1889, Turku)
- Arnold Majewski (1892, Tallinn – 1942, Rukajärvi)
- Akseli Karhi (1891, Turku – 1943)
- Kullervo Hurttia (1915, Eno – 1953)
- Annie Mörk (1887, Hanko – 1959, Helsinki)
- Juho Hemming Airamo (1893, Lieto – 1963, Turku)
- Rami Sarmasto (1938, Sauvo – 1965, Forssa)
- Toivo Aleksi Hämeranta (1900, Tampere – 1969, Turku)
- Senni Nieminen (1905, Turku – 1970, Turku)
- Jarno Saarinen (1945, Turku – 1973, Autodromo Nazionale Monza)
- Paavo Nurmi (1897, Turku – 1973, Helsinki)
- Mirja Mane (1929, Helsinki – 1974, Turku)
- Hugo Österman (1892, Helsinki – 1975, Helsinki)
- Armas Taipale (1890, Helsinki – 1976, Turku)
- Kaarlo Mäkinen (1892, Mariehamn – 1980, Turku)
- Wilho Ilmari (1888, Kymi – 1983, Turku)
- Kalevi Keihänen (1924 Vahto – 1995, Helsinki)
- Voitto Hellstén (1932, Pertteli – 1998, Turku)
Gallery
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Red squirrel on a tombstone in Turku cemetery
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Tombstone angel in Turku cemetery
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Tombstone workshop in Turku cemetery
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A bird in Turku Cemetery
References
edit- ^ "Sivua ei löydy | Turku Touring". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2013-10-13.
- ^ Kleemola, Jenni (August 19, 2007). "Pieniä haudattuja tarinoita" (in Finnish). Turun Sanomat. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
External links
edit- Media related to Turku cemetery at Wikimedia Commons
- Homepage (in Finnish only)