What is the cemetery?

The cemetery is a geographical area set as a funeral land for dead people. It may have traditional tombstones and graves or to be filled with unidentified remnants without identifiers on the graves. The ridges are traditionally located next to the church or near the church or other buildings marked as the place of worship. The cemetery has been a more common date for the cemetery since the mid -18th century.

Before the seventh or eighth century, the bodies of the deceased nearby were destroyed by ways on the basis of family tradition and religious faith. There were no established instructions or generally accepted standards regarding the disposition of human remains. At this time, there were also no structures or buildings such as churches or chapels that were devoted to worship. The worship became popular. The common practice of time was that the members of the family of very rich or members of the nobility were buried in crypts within religious structures or under buildings. Those of the lower social classes were forced to bury their loved ones on landsurrounding buildings and were created cemeteries.

Internal crypts generally were to provide the labels with the name, date of birth and death and other personal data about the deceased. Many families have shown weapons coats on the crypts. For generations, it was common to be buried in the same tomb.

It was not to overcome the rich and royal brands of the cemetery. Depending on the financial condition of the family, the brands ranged from simple wooden crosses to tombstones hand -carved by local stoneMasone to reflect the facts about the person buried. The local blacksmith was often hired to create a forged metal cross or other religious sign to be placed on the grave.

At the end of the 18th century, the cemetery lost popularity for several reasons. The population of industrial nations has experienced huge growth and there was not enough cemetery to meet everyone's funeral needs. Devastating outbreaks of fatal diseases and epidemics were noAnthole, monitored to contaminants of soil produced by the inner city cemetery. These conditions have led to the cemeteries are found in distant areas outside the cities and balsam rules promoted to discourage the spread of the disease.

The world still has thousands of cemeteries. Usually these are the first places where historians go to the hitchhiking of the ancestors and the history of family research. It is traditionally believed that the city or city is most likely the geographical center of the place where the city was originally founded.