Graveyards & graves

[cole2mrl]

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[usayit]

oh man.. you just hit on one of my favorite subjects.... I've got whole collections of graveyard pictures. I've known my wife for more than 10 years and she still refuses to follow me into graveyards for pictures. hehe lol

Here are a few I just happen to have handy on my computer....

#1

#2

#3

#4 - Taken with pentax 645 and scanned

#5 - Pentax 645 and scanned

#6 - 645

#7 - 645 again

 

[dirtnapper]

Yes, as I was saying: I actually believe that the synagoge was on the other side of the street, so there was at least a STREET between the synagoge and the cemetary. I don't think it bordered right on it. (I understood only little of things way back then, though :roll: ).

Let me see if I can shed some light… the structure with this “balcony” is the Ceremonial Hall which is near the exit of the cemetery. Not far from this building is the grave of Rabbi Loew (of the Golam legend fame)..easy to spot by the small pebbles that are left – huge pile! A short distance from this grave you can find the grave of Rabbi Masiel, Masiel Synagogue.
There are two well known Synagogues, Pinkas and Klausen, both near the cemetery in Josefov (Jewish section). The Klausen houses the "Jewish Customs and Traditions” exhibit, which part of continues into the Ceremeonial Hall. This is also the home of the Jewish Burial Society Hevrah Kaddishah and mortuary. This synagogue is connected by a wall which runs around the old cemetery. The Pinkas Shul houses an exhibit of 77,297 names of Holcaust Victims. Sadly when the Communist were in Czeh. they removed the names – but, once the Iron Curtain fell and they were gone, this was restored.
Also, it was forbidden for Jews to bury their dead outside of their own sections, this is why the cemeteries are located in the town..which would not have been the custom and would have been outside of the town. And, since each grave would have had a single stone for each burial this accounts for the many stones one finds. I'll end it here, since this could go onto into a history lesson..which I only wanted to just point out the Ceremonial Hall!

 

[LaFoto]

Thank you for your little "history lecture" --- I admit I should have listened to our guide more when I was there myself in 1977 (when I was 17), but I must admit I wasn't the most attentive of students at the time... :roll: Today I wish I could return to Prague for once!
I would go with a lot more interest - and a better camera .

 

[Aoide]

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[Chiller]

Awesome shot Laurie. Love the lighting on this one.

 

[LaFoto]

I'd like to share a couple more graveyard pics in this thread, might get quite a few...

1. The Sandstone Mourner...

2. "Thoughtful"

3. "A little weary"

4. The Musician

5. The Doctor

6. "Es ist bestimmt in Gottes Rat..."

7. "Caring"

8. "Sad Embrace"

I have a good many more and think this is the right place for them to be, much rather than the "Darkside Gallery" as I don't find them particularly "darkside".

 

[LaFoto]

And more:

1. "Cool and relaxed"

2. A Soldier's Grave

3. Another Soldier's Grave

(I might add that personally I don't like the style of these monuments, but I like how the eagle stares )

4. The young (male) angel (often they are female, but this one is not, though he cannot deny some androgynous features in his looks, I think)

5. Something did happen to his finger in the course of time...!

6. So sad (1)

7. So sad (2)

8. So sad (3) (a detail from the same statue as in 6 and 7)

 

[dirtnapper]

laFoto: I like these...where are they from...two look like military graves.

 

[ToddM]

This is the grave of a British sailor on Cape Hatteras Island, Outer Banks, North Carolina. I found this little site up in some woods near Cape Point camp ground (near the Cape Hatteras light house). Their boat was sunk off the coast of North Carolina by a German U-Boat during WWll.

 

[ToddM]

These graves are on the shore of the Pamlico Sound.

 

[LaFoto]

I want this theme thread up and continued.

Here are some more of my graveyard photos (I finally managed to create a whole Flickr-album out of all my graveyard pics, over 420 by now...)

1.
"Dona nobis pacem" - Give us peace

2.
The cross

3.
Only roses now

4.
A bit forgotten - a little overgrown

 

[Antarctican]

Oh my, I hadn't seen your older cemetery pics, Corinna. Lovely compositions you made there! And some amazing statues.

 

[Chiller]

Corinna, those are beautiful shots. Tough to pic a fave out of those. Kinda leaning towards the last one tho. I gotta try some cemetery pics one day. We have some cool places around here that I can practice in.

 

[LaFoto]

Oh yes, Chiller. Do try take some cemetery photos, too, will you? (I hear you sometimes have trouble with cemetery security? No such problems here, no one gives anyone even a second look if you are being spotted with a camera. Fortunately).