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Balancing community wishes with practical limitations

Balancing community wishes with practical limitations

The monastery in Glane hosts the only cemetery for Syriac-Orthodox members in the Netherlands and neighboring countries. While it offers eternal grave rest, the cemetery will eventually reach capacity. How can this beaddressed? And how can the cemetery remain a place of equality, not a display of wealth?

This article is part of the series Syriac-Orthodox journeys of death and burial in the Netherlands:

  1. Tracing the past
  2. Balancing community wishes with practical limitations
  3. The careful care of the deceased