Cmentarz rzymskokatolicki w Janowie Podlaskim

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Roman Catholic cemetery in Janów Podlaski - a necropolis of the Roman Catholic denomination in Janów Podlaski, administered by the local parish of the Holy Trinity. In the past, a Catholic cemetery divided into Latin and Uniate quarters, followed by a Catholic-Orthodox cemetery. The cemetery is located in the eastern part of Janów Podlaski, by the road to Cieleśnica. The Catholic necropolis in Janów Podlaski, divided into Latin and Uniate parts, was founded at the beginning of the 19th century. In the second half of the 19th century In the same century, a cemetery chapel was erected on its premises. Rocha. In 1875, after the dissolution of the Uniate Chełm diocese, the Uniate part of the cemetery was renamed the Orthodox (just like the church in Janów). When the orthodox parish in Janów was liquidated in 1919, Roman Catholic rite took possession of the whole necropolis J. Maraśkiewicz, Historic Cemeteries and Tombs in Poland. Bialskopodlaskie Province, Center for the Protection of the Historic Landscape, Warsaw 1995,, pp. 39-40. . There are several tombstones of the nineteenth century and several tombstones from the first half of the cemetery. The twentieth century . The oldest gravestones are the obelisk on the grave of the poviat of the Białowieża poviat, Andrzej Serwiński, who died in 1842, the cross on the grave of the magistrate and owner of the Jakarta estate of Tomasz Horoch (died 1848), the grave of Walenty Skalski, the last mayor of Janów Podlaski (died 1865), obelisk on grave of Katarzyna Golz (died 1853), a cross on the grave of Piotr Serwiński (died in 1866) and the gravestone of Walenty Rościszewski, former president Suwałki . Within the cemetery there are also monuments commemorating Polish soldiers who died during World War I and II, Polish-Bolshevik war and soldiers of the Home Army . The grave of Tomasz Horoch Janów.jpg [source: Wikipedia, 3502459]

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