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Järvakandi Cemetery

When Järvakandi manor built its church in 1854, a cemetery was reportedly laid out beside it and enlarged in 1860 and 1877. Nobody knows today where that first cemetery was, because old maps show no graves on the present site. The cemetery seen today was founded in 1922 and consecrated on 10 December that year. The first person buried here was Krõõt Kiova, who died in January 1923 aged 77. The church next door has since been renamed Kehtna St Peter's, but the cemetery has kept the Järvakandi name. It became a protected cultural monument in 1997.

Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today

Eesti keeles

Kui Järvakandi mõisa juurde 1854. aastal kirik ehitati, rajati selle juurde väidetavalt ka kalmistu, mida laiendati 1860. ja 1877. aastal. Kus see kalmistu asus, pole teada, sest praeguse kalmistu kohale pole vanadel kaartidel kalmistut märgitud. Praegune kalmistu rajati 1922. aastal ja pühitseti 10. detsembril 1922. Esimesena maeti siia Krõõt Kiova, kes suri 1923. aasta jaanuaris. Kõrvalasuv kirik kannab nüüd Kehtna Peetri kiriku nime, kuid kalmistu on jäänud Järvakandi kalmistuks. 1997. aastal tunnistati see riiklikuks kultuurimälestiseks.

Map of the area around Järvakandi Cemetery
58.90714° N, 24.83359° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

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