City of the dead :-
With burial space running out, Jerusalem's largest cemetery is expanding beneath the soil. Each of these holes will provide a final resting place for one of the city's dead, with some 22000 graves in total in the 1.5km long tunnel system.
A shortage of burial space is an issue in crowed cities and in regions where religion discourages cremation. This means that engineers are having to come up with innovative solutions. These hive like crypts were bored into the rock, 50 meters below the original cemetery. "The deceased will be buried inside the rock, just as they were in Biblical times," says Arik Glazer chief executive of Rolzur Tunnelling, the company behind the project's construction. Visitors will enter the tunnels via elevators, with floors at different levels providing access to the stacked graves, while golf carts will be in hand to transport people around.
With burial space running out, Jerusalem's largest cemetery is expanding beneath the soil. Each of these holes will provide a final resting place for one of the city's dead, with some 22000 graves in total in the 1.5km long tunnel system.
A shortage of burial space is an issue in crowed cities and in regions where religion discourages cremation. This means that engineers are having to come up with innovative solutions. These hive like crypts were bored into the rock, 50 meters below the original cemetery. "The deceased will be buried inside the rock, just as they were in Biblical times," says Arik Glazer chief executive of Rolzur Tunnelling, the company behind the project's construction. Visitors will enter the tunnels via elevators, with floors at different levels providing access to the stacked graves, while golf carts will be in hand to transport people around.
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