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 Helga 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
  • Gabriel Israel Hartman (January 28, 1776, Lumparland - March 1, 1809, Turku)
  • Akseli Karhi (July 18, 1891, Turku - May 3, 1943)
  • Kullervo Hurttia (September 30, 1915, Eno - October 28, 1953)
  • Annie Mörk (February 28, 1887, Hanko - July 22, 1959, Helsinki)
  • Juho Hemming Airamo (August 22, 1893, Lieto - September 24, 1963, Turku)
  • Rami Sarmasto (August 24, 1938, Sauvo - February 13, 1965, Forssa)
  • Toivo Aleksi Hämeranta (September 20, 1900, Tampere - November 15, 1969, Turku)
  • Senni Nieminen (March 21, 1905, Turku - July 28, 1970, Turku)
  • Jarno Saarinen (December 11, 1945, Turku - May 20, 1973, Autodromo Nazionale Monza)
  • Paavo Nurmi (June 13, 1897, Turku - October 2, 1973, Helsinki)
  • Mirja Mane (May 9, 1929, Helsinki - April 21, 1974, Turku)
  • Hugo Österman (September 4, 1892, Helsinki - February 17, 1975, Helsinki)
  • Armas Taipale (July 27, 1890, Helsinki - November 9, 1976, Turku)
  • Kaarlo Mäkinen (May 14, 1892, Mariehamn - May 11, 1980, Turku)
  • Wilho Ilmari (April 24, 1888, Kymi - March 18, 1983, Turku)
  • Voitto Hellstén (February 15, 1932, Pertteli - December 7, 1998, Turku)
  • Red squirrel on a tombstone in Turku cemetery
  • Tombstone angel in Turku cemetery
  • Tombstone workshop in Turku cemetery
  • A bird in Turku Cemetery

Notes
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2013-10-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Kleemola, Jenni (August 19, 2007). "Pieniä haudattuja tarinoita" (in Finnish). Turun Sanomat. Retrieved November 16, 2020.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.