The Old and Forgotten Cemetery

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I just arrived back from Naissaar which is a small island of Estonia. We went there with friends to do a disc golf contest, enjoy a great sauna and drink lots of beer. Needless to say, I'm really tired right now. I had planned to write an Icelandic volcano post but that takes some real effort, it will be an extensive post but I have no strength for it today.
I still have a lot of content that I captured earlier this year so I will make a short post of one of these cases.

Back in February, I didn't want to sit at home all day. Decided to drive somewhere and hopefully see someplace that I haven't yet.
I found this old cemetery where it looks like all the graves are long forgotten and overall the place is quite in ruins.

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The weather was trash and the photos are poor that's why I'm not even bothering to upload these to a photography group.

I don't know what that is but I always have this strange feeling visiting historic, forgotten or old cemeteries. The oldest gravesite I was able to find, dates back to 1814. Many crosses and gravestones were so worn out by elements that these were unreadable.

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Many crosses had fallen over and it doesn't look like any grave site was cared by someone.

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Buildings in the place were probably used for funeral events but these were in ruin too.

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This gravestone reads the 1845 date, not much more can be made out.
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Many crosses that had fallen over were collected together by someone but no one probably knows where these belong exactly so they have just collected these in piles.

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Here are some more photos I took at the site.
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I will try to make the volcano post happen tomorrow if nothing comes up that takes a lot of time from the day, stay tuned!




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