World Cemeteries

Brookwood Cemetery , UK (London Necropolis)

England has been compared for centuries as a land of aristocratic traditions. It was in England, in a country where cemeteries inspired famous people, that city necropolises survived the longest. One of them is the cemetery in the town of Woking. It's a city in the northwest of Surrey, England. It is located at the southwestern edge of the Greater London agglomeration. Brookwood Cemetery was established by the London Necropolis Company in 1849 to house the dead in London, at a time when the capital city had difficulty adapting to its growing population, living and dead. It covers an area of ​​about 210 ha, where over 200,000 people are buried (2020y.). This cemetery is a child of the industrial revolution. It was founded in the mid-nineteenth century. Where you can find tons of burials of many different religions, including even separate sections for Zoroastrian (Iranian religion) and Muslim-Ismailis.

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