Kopli cemetery

Kopli kalmistu
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Details
Established1774
Location
CountryEstonia
Typenot extant
No. of gravesunknown
Russian chapel at the cemetery

The Kopli cemetery (German: Friedhof von Ziegelskoppel or Kirchhof von Ziegelskoppel; Estonian: Kopli kalmistu) was Estonia's largest Lutheran Baltic German cemetery, located in the suburb of Kopli in Tallinn. It contained thousands of graves of prominent citizens of Tallinn and stood from 1774 to shortly after World War II, when it was completely flattened and destroyed by the Soviet occupation authorities governing the country at the time.[1] The former cemetery is now a public park.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Rein Taagepera, Estonia: Return to Independence, Westview Press 1993, ISBN 0813317037, p. 189