Kalvaryja

Catholic cemetery in Minsk, Belarus

Kalvaryja Cemetery
Kalvaryja entrance

Details
Established	1808 ?
Location	Minsk
Country	Belarus
Owned by	State
Size	13,9223 ha
No. of graves	30,000+

Kalvaryja (Belarusian: Кальварыя, [kʌlʲˈvarɨja]) is a Catholic Calvary cemetery in Minsk, Belarus.

The cemetery contains a small Catholic chapel, currently used for general worship. The original wooden Catholic church was first built here back in 1673, but currently the oldest remaining graves are from 1808. The small chapel was built in 1839. Several famous Polish and Belarusian personalities from the 19th century are buried at Kalvaryja.^{[citation needed]}

In 2001, the cemetery became the center of a controversy when it was revealed that the state-run company responsible for taking care of the graves was destroying old graves and selling the newly freed slots to the wealthy.^{[citation needed]}

Adam Hlobus wrote a short story set in Kalvaryja.^[1]

External links

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References

^ Globus, Adam (March 1993). "Death is a man". Index on Censorship. 22 (3): 7–15. doi:10.1080/03064229308535525. ISSN 0306-4220. Retrieved 5 February 2024.