The Glasgow Necropolis, a Victorian cemetery, is a must for everyone visiting Scotland. The cemetery is located on a hill near the Glasgow Cathedral from where a route for funeral prosessions leads over a bridge to the cemetery. Then several routes lead up to the hill passing gravestones and mausoleums. From the very beginning, the Glasgow Necropolis has been an interdenominational cemetery. Joseph Levi, a Jewish jeweller, was the first to be buried there in 1832. In the Victorian era, Glasgow was the second most important city of the empire and the cemetery shows the wealth of that time. The cemetery was however not only for the rich and famous; it was also the burial place for ordinary Glasgowians. Over 50,000 burials have taken place and 3,500 tombs have been constructed;

expensive family mausoleums beside common graves.

                      Markku Rainer Peltonen

"Visit also the website of "The Friends of Glasgow Necropolis"

http://www.glasgownecropolis.org/