Cemeteries and Memorials

Images of various graveyards featuring old gravestones, modern sculptures, floral tributes, and memorial traditions, conveying a serene yet somber atmosphere.

Friedhof mit alten Gräbern cemetery in Germany with old graves Copyright: xZoonar.com/OliverxNowakx 23147770
Friedhof mit alten Gräbern cemetery in Germany with old graves Copyright: xZoonar.com/OliverxNowakx 23147770
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cementerio de llucmajor, Mallorca, islas baleares, Spain.
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Hanga Roa cemetery, Easter Island, Chile, South America
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Catholic church of Fatima. Ex-voto. wall. Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam.
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Church in Bad Suderode Harz
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Tunis, Tunisia. Crosses on graves at the North Africa American Cemetery in Carthage. (Editorial Use Only)
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View of a serene cemetery with countless tombstones under a cloudy sky, a slender minaret rising in the distance, Sarajevo, Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Old weathered gravestone in the cemetery - South Korea
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The Trinitatisfriedhof cemetery in Dresden's Johannstadt district is one of the city's burial grounds originally laid out as an epidemic cemetery alongside the Eliasfriedhof cemetery. Due to its artistic design, it is one of the most important cemeteries in Dresden in terms of urban history and cultural history and is the fifth largest cemetery in the city. Grave of Caspar David Friedrich. The grave was provided with new foundations, cleaned and planted, Dresden, Saxony, Germany, Europe
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Rwanda, Nyamata, Antonia Locatelli tomb
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Memorial to the unknown dead, cemetery, St Severin's Church, Keitum, North Sea island of Sylt, North Frisia, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe
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Lancetillo cemetery, La Parroquia, Reyna area, Quiche, Guatemala, Central America.
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Grave of Colonel General Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl, during the Nazi area Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command, Abtei Frauenwoerth Abbey, cemetery at the Benedictine Abbey, Frauenchiemsee or Fraueninsel, Women's Island, Lake Chiemsee, Chiemgau region, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
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Hand on Cross, Chedde, Haute Savoie, France, Europe
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Grave Theodor Fontane, Cemetery II of the French Reformed Parish, Liesenstrasse, Chausseestrasse, Mitte, Berlin, Germany, Europe
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Kosovo Serbs gather in the Kosovo Polje Cemetary to honor their departed loved ones, on Nov 4, the Day of the Dead. - May not be used in defamation towards Serbian people.
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Ukraine, Pripyat, Chernobyl. Statue at a memorial to WWII soldiers. (Editorial Use Only)
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Casket in the Chapel of Rest, Germany, Europe
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Full Dress Burial For Dog - Neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Powers (foreground) gather for the funeral of Buddy, the Powers' 3-year-old Irish Setter, which was complete with a special-size coffin and floral pieces. The dog, which died of uremic poisoning, was buried in the Powers' back yard after special permission was given by the city, provided the coffin be placed in a cement vault. November 08, 1955. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).
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Grave, Ernst Fraenkel, Waldfriedhof Dahlem, Huettenweg, Berlin, Germany, Europe
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Martyrs' Memorial Cemetery Kovaci in Stari Grad, Sarajevo, the main cemetery for soldiers from the Bosnian Army who were killed during the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina (April 1992 - December 1995). Man praying at Alija Izetbegovic's grave.
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Vatican City, Jan. 05, 2023: Funeral mass of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at St. Peter's square in the Vatican.
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Poll bearers carry a flower draped casket to the burial site in a Memphis, Tennessee memorial park.
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North Macedonia. September 4, 2024. Headstones in a rural North Macedonian cemetery.
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A visitor to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe protects himself from heavy rain with an umbrella, Berlin, 23 June 2023
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GANDHI, Mohondas Karamchand (1869-1948), known as Mahatma (Great Soul). Indian Nationalist leader. Gandhi Memorial, Delhi, with everlasting flame.
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The Space Shuttle Columbia Memorial is seen after a wreath laying ceremony as part of NASAs Day of Remembrance, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. The wreaths were laid in memory of those men and women who lost their lives in the quest for space exploration.
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Funeral, church and family carry coffin for death, grief or sermon for burial with support. People, pallbearers and sad together with casket for respect, farewell or sorrow in mourning, mass or loss
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Grave of Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, 1809 - 1847, a German composer, pianist and organist, auf dem Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof I cemetery, cemeteries at Hallesches Tor between Mehringdamm street and Zossener Strasse street, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, Europe
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Tomb of Piotr Skarga The tomb of Piotr Skarga in church of Saints Peter and Paul in Kraków Copyright: xZoonar.com/Photographer:xMariuszxS.xJurgielewiczx 2628041
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Wales, Carmarthenshire, Laugharne. The grave of Caitlin Thomas (nee Caitlin Macnamara, 1913-94) and her husband the Welsh poet and writer Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914-53) in St Martin of Tours' churchyard.
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Double exposure of W. B. Yeats gravestone at Drumcliff graveyard underneath Ben Bulben mountain. Sligo, Ireland, Europe
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burial of the Ribas de Pina family, Pina cemetery, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.
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Grave site of Eva Peron or Evita in La Recoleta Cemetary in Buenos Aires
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procesion marinera de la virgen del Carmen, Portinatx, Ibiza, balearic islands, Spain.
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Mann's Chinese Theater Hollywood Los Angeles California, USA
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Austria, Vienna, Zentralfriedhof, Central Cemetery, grave of the composer Ludwig von Beethoven
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Zermatt's climbers graveyard
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Spes Unica = One hope. Cross in the Pere Lachaise graveyard.
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The footprints of His Excellency the 14th Dalai Lama Tensin Gyatso embedded in the area around Stavanger Harbour in Norway.