- Source: Turku Cemetery
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.
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.
Notable interments
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
References
External links
Media related to Turku cemetery at Wikimedia Commons
Homepage (in Finnish only)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Ragnar Arthur Granit
- Sarkofagus
- Cakupan Google Street View
- Turku Cemetery
- Turku
- Lists of cemeteries
- Turku Student Village
- Hietaniemi Cemetery
- War grave
- Turku Orthodox Church
- Arnold Majewski
- Grave
- Eemil Halonen
