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Recent Examples of columbariumNext to the chapel is a columbarium, a repository for the ashes of select members of the congregation.—Ted Koppel, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024 The challenges of life at Community First In the middle of Community First is a memorial garden with the ashes of dozens of residents who have died, their names etched into a granite columbarium.—Lucy Tompkins Eli Durst, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024 His grave is near the path dividing the southernmost section of the cemetery from the columbarium wall, where the urns are housed.—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023 For lack of a better option, both were placed in the columbarium, two more Does for the cemetery, and another story waiting to be told.
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David Reamer writes about Anchorage history, from murders and neighborhoods to churches and chinchillas.—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023 See all Example Sentences for columbarium
The day’s main attraction are 100 altars (ofrendas), erected along the avenues of mausoleums.
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes,
25 Oct. 2024
Hoxha’s mausoleum, a brutalist pyramid with the heroic lines of Agitprop posters, is currently cloaked in scaffolding, and his villa—a modernist royal palace in tropical gardens in Blloku—is set to be a cultural center.
Stephanie Rafanelli,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 Mar. 2023
Meanwhile, the last viewers see of Pope and Sarah, they are trapped in the catacombs as floodwaters rush in from a brewing storm.
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes,
6 Nov. 2024
TikTok is always warning me not to venture into the Paris catacombs without a guide, but the beginning of the Opening Ceremony sent precocious children to run down there unattended.
These burials are along the edges of the mounds, leaving much of the center of the mounds untouched.
Frank Vaisvilas,
Journal Sentinel,
14 Nov. 2024
The boy's body is set to be laid to rest Friday, with funeral services at St. Peter of Alcantara Church followed by a burial in St. Mary’s Parish Cemetery, both in Port Washington, Wisconsin.
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