Rasos Cemetery

Rasos Cemetery
Entrance to the cemetery.
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Established1769[1]
Location
Vilnius
CountryLithuania
Coordinates54°40′06″N 25°18′16″E / 54.66833°N 25.30444°E / 54.66833; 25.30444
TypePublic
(closed to new burials)
Size10.8 hectares (27 acres)
Find a GraveRasos Cemetery
Tomb of Jonas Basanavičius
Grave of Jozef Piłsudski's mother. The huge black tombstone is inscribed: "Matka i serce syna"
("A mother and the heart of her son") and bears evocative lines from a poem by Słowacki.
Tomb of Antoni Wiwulski (Antanas Vivulskis) in Rasos Cemetery

Rasos Cemetery (Lithuanian: Rasų kapinės, Polish: cmentarz Na Rossie, Belarusian: Могілкі Росы) is the oldest and most famous cemetery in the city of Vilnius, Lithuania. It is named after the Rasos district where it is located. It is separated into two parts, the old and the new cemeteries, by a narrow Sukilėliai Street. The total area is 10.8 ha. Since 1990 new burials are allowed only to family graves.

  1. ^ Juliusz Kłos, Wilno: przewodnik krajoznawczy, Wilno 1937, s. 229.