how do they remove the stone in front of where they will be buried, can someone tell me how they bury people in walls?
2007-02-13 13:36:37 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
yeah it might not have anything to do w/ society and culture but there was not really any place to put a question like this
2007-02-13 13:37:31 · update #1
Didn't you just ask this?
Usually the wall is constructed around the body, or the niches built into the walls for coffins to be inserted later. Just a minute let me get you some links...
http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc02/htm/iv.v.cdlv.htm
(see reference to recess graves and bench graves in above link)
see reference to mausoleums in...
http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/hardt/Death%20Questions/Burial%20Customs%20.htm
see also...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum
Ok, happy now?
2007-02-13 13:45:22 · answer #1 · answered by Joni DaNerd 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"A columbarium (plural columbaria or columbariums) is a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns (i.e. urns holding a deceased’s cremated remain."
ALSO
'tomb walls' are used to bury body remnants in a wall.
I hope it helps in your research.
2007-02-13 13:54:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋