Cmentarz prawosławny w Babicach

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Orthodox cemetery in Babice - necropolis in Babice, originally belonging to the local Uniate parish, then the Orthodox parish. [source: Wikipedia, 3742429]

History and description

The cemetery was founded in 1912 to accentuate the Orthodox presence in the village. There was already an old necropolis in the village, which, despite the opening of the new one, remained active D. Kawałko, Cemeteries ..., pp. 166-167. . After the World War I, the old cemetery was no longer used, the burials were held only from now on, which after the closure of the church in Babice (converted into a church) remains in the administration of the parish of the Holy Trinity in Tarnogród . The necropolis occupies the area of a rectangle with an area of 0.54 ha. From the north, there is an area of 0.66 hectares surrounded by the earthen wall, which may also have been intended for burial purposes when the cemetery was opened. The southern part of the cemetery is overgrown with lime trees, oaks, aspens, hazelnuts, robinia, rowanberries, fruit trees, lilac lilac bushes. In the northern part, where new burials are held, grass grows . Six grave monuments from before 1945 and a foundation obelisk from 1912, which contains the church Slavonic inscription. The cemetery was open in the efforts of parish priest and parishioners in 1912. Two of the preserved monuments from the first half. Twentieth century are symbolic graves. The first, from 1921, is to commemorate Yevdosia and Ivan Krawiec, who in 1915 went on a race and died in the oregon Governorate; the second, the Koźlik family, was erected to commemorate the dead in Russia, Kondratija, Yefimija and Kirilla, and Paraskiewa, who died in America (1934) . The remaining older graves are in the form of obelisks and columns on pedestals in the shape of a cuboid, orthodox crosses on pedestals with extensions or on pedestals decorated with fault cornices, acroterions and tympanums. On the graves from before 1945, there are Orthodox Slavonic inscriptions, and on the new monuments - Polish . File: Babice cmentarz new4.jpg [source: Wikipedia, 3742429]

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