Today after school I checked out the cemetery at Montparnasse. Its one of the three famous cemeteries in Paris. Its really interesting to see the progression of grave styles, there are a lot of people who were buried here recently and others over a hundred years ago.
There are lot of individual crypts? I don’t know exactly what they are called. Each one is fairly narrow and tall with a little double doors at the entrance. Inside is a stain glass window, a crucifix and usually a little shelf. Im guessing its for the family to come and do prayers as respect. Some of them you can tell no one was been in there in over 50 years. I liked looking inside because each one had something different. A couple had bibles lying on the self, others had little photos, rosaries, dead or plastic flowers, chairs, all sorts of thing. Many of them were covered with a huge layer of dust. Its sad that some of the families havent let theirs fall into disrepair. I found one where the door had fallen in and the tablets marking who was buried there had been broken. There was a sign in french saying that it had been abandoned and was available, inquiries could be made a the main office. I guess its a sorta fix-ur-upper crypt?
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3 years ago