Palm Grove Cemetery

Graves of the missionaries who died in Monrovia (1909)

The Palme Grove Cemetery is the main cemetery of the Liberian capital Monrovia .

The cemetery was started in the first third of the 19th century and initially served as a burial place for the first dead of the newly founded city of Monrovia, who often died of illnesses and infections after a few days, still weakened from the rigors of the sea voyage. Due to the rapid population increase in the city after the Second World War , the cemetery became the main cemetery.
Palme Grove Cemetery today consists of a park-like facility with a maximum extension of 300 meters in the main directions. It is cut into two roughly equal parts by a wide, paved path. Both halves are enclosed by a wall, on which a number of mausoleums and memorial plaques lean like niches. The arrangement of the graves is disordered, and there are hardly any trees that provide shade.

The cemetery has no chapel or mortuary.

literature

• Gerold Schmidt: Tropical fates - Germans in Liberia / West Africa in the Monrovia cemetery . In: Journal for Culture Exchange . 33. Vol. 2, 1983, ISSN  0044-2976 , pp. 240-247 .

Coordinates: 6 ° 18 ′ 41 ″  N , 10 ° 48 ′ 22 ″  W.