Armenian Cemetery (Moscow)

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Old mourning hall

The Armenian cemetery ( Russian Армянское кладбище ) is located in the Moscow District of Administration Center , District Presnensky, diagonally opposite the Russian Orthodox vagankovo cemetery . It is the traditional burial place of the Armenian diaspora in central Russia .

The cemetery is around two hectares and parts of it are listed .

history

The Armenian cemetery was built towards the end of the 18th or beginning of the 19th century as an independent part of the neighboring Vagankovo ​​cemetery, which was laid out a few years earlier. While the latter initially served as a burial place for the poorer classes of the Moscow population, wealthy merchants also found their final resting place in the Armenian Cemetery. In 1815 the Armenian parish of Moscow had a church building built in the central area of ​​the cemetery. This has been preserved to this day and serves both as a place of worship and as a cemetery chapel.

In the 1850s, the cemetery was enclosed by a stone wall. In the late 19th century, the red-brick funeral hall was built in the cemetery near the main entrance. Both this and the church are now a listed building.

Gravesites

Representative tomb

Today the cemetery has an extremely dense population of trees and, in addition to a large number of modern graves, houses historical monuments from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Some of these tombstones are executed as kachkars in the Armenian tradition , some particularly elaborate tombs are mausoleums of rich Russian-Armenian merchants and manufacturers.

There are also a large number of graves of well-known personalities not only of Armenian origin in the Armenian Cemetery. Among other things, the following are buried here:

See also

Web links

Commons : Moscow Armenian Cemetery  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 55 ° 45 ′ 57.2 ″  N , 37 ° 33 ′ 16.2 ″  E